Bazaar Explorer by Pictures

Alexander Belchenko bialix at ukr.net
Sat Jul 4 11:19:03 BST 2009


Alexander Belchenko пишет:
> Philippe Lhoste пишет:
>> On 03/07/2009 12:32, Ian Clatworthy wrote:
>>> It certainly isn't ready for Grandma
>> Interesting thought.
>> In a far, nebulous future, it might be interesting to customize the
>> interface to accommodate some common, limited workflows (not unlike the
>> Hat concept, perhaps) like mine (single developer on a single machine,
>> or, now, with a shared online branch and local branches on two
>> computers), that would hide some complexities of a fully featured VCS
>> (checkouts, light or heavy, bound branches, repositories, etc.).
>>
>> Sometime, all you want is some simple way to keep versions of your
>> files, and be able to go back or see what have changed, and that's
>> all... :-)
> 
> It seems I have similar idea.
> 
> Yesterday I've chatted with Vincent in IRC and said that now I'd like to teach some of people at my
> company who is not programmers but schematics/PCB designers to use bzr for their work. Because their
> work is basically solo workflow with central server as backup location, I think current
> full-featured bzr-explorer interface will be too much for them (even though it's translated to Russian).
> 
> So, make it possible to use bzr as smart backup solution by non-programmers or my mother (who is
> accountant) I'd like to have very simple wizard-like GUI client. With limited set of commands: add,
> commit, sync with central server, with log and working tree views, and with ability to see older
> version of documents (in native applications) easily. 

So, basically this is roughly what gitk client provides (http://gitcasts.com/posts/git-on-windows)
but with slick and native interface (Tcl/Tk looks as ancient artifact even on Windows!) with
additional hints to the user.




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