bzr-gtk vs. QBzr

[Sylvain Rouquette]

Agreed.

I'm a Windows user. I tried Olive and bzr-gtk when bzr was around 0.9,
it wasn't really user friendly to install these with Python.
Now with TBzr+QBzr, it's really easier. The integration with Windows
is great, the dialog box looks great.
I don't use the command line, so maybe you won't be interested by what
I'll have to say.

But I think TBzr/QBzr lacks some features like :
- merge tool (something like TortoiseMerge, or at least an option to
select an external merge tool, like what you did with diff)
- recursive add files (I want to select the files I want to add)
- password management
- get/save file's previous version from Log
- and ultimately... it looks different from TortoiseSVN (TortoiseGit
does look like TSVN)

I don't know if you should compare QBzr with bzr-gtk or another GUI
for bzr. The obvious comparison people will make is with a similar
tool, like TortoiseSVN.

We are still using TSVN at work because we're afraid that TBzr won't
do its job. bzr 1.11 release was a joke, the installer contained a
bugged version of TBzr/Qbzr, and it stayed like that for a month, and
the missing features don't help to make a choice about switching to
bzr.

I really hope TBzr/QBzr will improve a lot because these projects are
important if you want to target the windows crowd. TSVN is the way,
Olive isn't.

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-= Syl =-



On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 21:35, Karl Fogel <karl.fogel at canonical.com> wrote:
> FWIW, all the anecdotal evidence (bug reports, mailing list traffic,
> etc) is that TortoiseSVN users are the vast majority of all Subversion
> users -- above 90%, possibly way above.
>
> Windows support is still the ultimate killer app, apparently.
>
>