bazaar-explorer and bzr-git kudos

[Michael Hudson]

Francis J. Lacoste wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Tim Penhey told me a nice story the other day. They were sprinting in
> Wellington last week and attended after-hours a user-group of some
sort (I
> think LUG, but I can't recall).

It was the Wellington Python User Group, although this mostly seemed to
be "a bunch of guys from Catalyst".

> Since most of the folks there were interested in Launchpad & bzr they
asked
> for an impromptu talk. Tim showed off code reviews in Launchpad with bzr.
>
> At some point, someone asked if there was a GUI for bzr, to which Tim
talked
> about bazaar-explorer. He showed it off. Since many of those were git
users,
> they wondered if that tool could also support git? Thinking about it a
little,
> Tim replied with "actually, it can probably support it right now!".
After a
> little help from Jelmer (also attending) to get the proper packages
installed.
> He demoed on the fly using bazaar explorer with a git branch to the
admiration
> of everybody.

It wasn't just any git repo too, it was a 300 meg moodle repo, and it
was all surprisingly quick in bzr-explorer.

> So kudos from Tim on making this work out-of-the-box!

It was very cool!

Cheers,
mwh