Bazaar still below the radar when evaluating VCS tools

[Marius Gedminas]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 01:21:17AM +0100, Danny van Heumen wrote:
> Gordon Tyler wrote:
>
> [snip]
>> I think my point is more that Launchpad doesn't really promote public
>> sharing of a branch without all the paraphernalia of project setup.
>>   
> I can find myself in this remark.

I wonder how much of this is cultural background.  I've used Launchpad
despite its sometimes-overcomplicated UI.  I've used, say, Github less.
I find that Launchpad has features that I miss on Github.  For example,
in Launchpad I can start hacking and then push a personal public branch
without having to do any setup via web forms:

  bzr init .
  hack hack
  bzr commit
  bzr push lp:~myusername/+junk/newbranchname
  hack hack
  bzr commit
  bzr push

There's a kind of logic to it that makes sense to me, e.g. here's how
you create a branch of an existing project:

  bzr branch lp:projectname
  cd projectname
  hack hack
  bzr commit 
  bzr push lp:~myusername/projectname/newbranchname

In Github I often get stuck in point 1: how do I find which of the 47
personal branches called "buildbot" belonging to random people is
actually the mainline branch of that project?

Marius Gedminas
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