bzr-gtk vs. QBzr

[Alexander Belchenko]

Russel Winder пишет:
> Alexander,
> 
> On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 21:26 +0200, Alexander Belchenko wrote:
>> I know there are many bzr-gtk users here. I guess some of them maybe tried QBzr.
>> I know some people have both plugins installed because some features are
>> unique to one plugin of two, and vice versa.
>>
>> May I ask you to describe your thoughts, informal comparison between bzr-gtk and QBzr.
>> I'm one of QBzr developers and I'd like to understand differences better.
>> Last release of bzr-gtk was 6 months ago, although it's still in more-or-less
>> active development. I guess bzr-gtk is stable and mature tool then.
> 
> Some purely off-the-cuff and personal remarks to give some feedback, but
> you may not like them :-)
> 
> I am using Ubuntu.
> 
> QBzr has no "console" and so I just don't use it -- if I using the
> command line I use the command line, I don't use the command line to
> start GUI tools, I expect to use a GUI front end for that.  bzr-gtk is
> almost as bad as Olive-GTK doesn't have some basic commands like "create
> a file" so cannot be used as an interation interface.  I haven't tried
> Nautilus as a bzr front end.  
> 
> "bzr qlog <shared repository directory>" is a singualr exception, I
> definitely use it to show what is happening with multiple branches in a
> shared repository, bzr-gtk has no equivalent as far as I know.
> Unfortunately this only does 0.5 the job that "gitk --all" does.  Gitk
> wins here on all counts, but mostly because it shows the remote branches
> as well as the local branches.  This is perhaps the single biggest
> irritation of my life, I want to use Bazaar to manage my Subversion
> repository but Git has all the speed and remote branch visualization and
> management features.

IIUC git can show you "remote" branches only because it holds the copy of them locally.
AFAIK it can't show log directly from server, as bzr does. It should mirror them first.
(May be I'm wrong here but I don't think so.)

You can get the same effect with bzr if you regularly mirror remote branches to
your shared repo. Or if you explicitly specify remote branch url in command line for qlog.