bzr-gtk vs. QBzr

[Russel Winder]

John,

On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 08:32 -0600, John Arbash Meinel wrote:

> If you are doing 'commit --local', then it isn't a mirror. It sounds
> more like you need to be clearer about what branches are a *mirror*
> (identical to remote) and what branches are a local working copy.

I agree.  The problem comes though when one wants to update the mainline
but one is having lunch in the Banana Leaf Canteen rather than at home
connected to the Internet.  (Whilst there are a number of 802.11 access
points visible in the Banana Leaf Canteen, they are all either private
with at least some protection, or part of The Cloud or BT OpenZone
networks.  These operators charge hugely extortionate, and unacceptably
large amounts of money for Internet access.  No account, no access.)

OK I agree that the scenarios is now getting muddled.

What it does raise though is the hoary chestnut (as opposed hoary
hedgehog :-) of Bazaar garbage collection.  With Git you create a
feature branch, do a merge, delete a feature branch, do a garbage
collect and you can be fairly certain that any extraneous material is
excised from the repository.  With Bazaar, if I create a feature branch
in a shared repository I am not certain there is a way of deleting that
branch and there being any certainty that the shared repository will not
contain excess material.  Or maybe I am wrong.  Anyway this leads me to
the possible fallacious feeling that branches is shared repositories
need to be long lasting ones, and that the only garbage free way of
having feature branches is to have them be self-standing branches
outside of a shared repository.  For a small branch this is fine, for a
big branch it probably isn't.

NB  This is all about perceptions, not facts!
  
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Russel.
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