Bazaar Presentation.

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 01:50:55PM -0500, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> Ian Clatworthy wrote:
> > Eric Berry wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 8:32 PM, Gordon Tyler <gordon at doxxx.net
> >> <mailto:gordon at doxxx.net>> wrote:
> >>
> >>     How have you found Bazaar's integration and
> >>     interoperability with Subversion?
> > 
> >> Hi Gordon,
> >>    The integration is awesome. It's ALMOST seamless. There are a few
> >> features that the bzr-svn plugin doesn't seem to work with, the biggest
> >> one for me is svn:ignore to bzrignore, and visa-versa. As a result, I
> >> ended up taking the svn:ignore and translating by hand into bzrignore
> >> patterns. Then committed the .bzrignore file to our svn repo.
> > 
> > Great to hear. I wonder how hard it would be to write a script that
> > generated a .bzrignore file from the svn:ignore metadata in a tree? It
> > would be nice to add a script like that to bzr-svn.
> The main problem AIUI is that svn ignores are not recursive. So a simple
> translator would be doing mostly absolute ignores. Actually, this was
> one of my biggest pains with svn and one of the reasons to only use
> per-user ignore files. (Because at least there, they are global.)
> 
> Anyway, there is at least a possibility that when someone says "*.o" in
> dir/ they really want it in dir/subdir too, but just didn't get it
> configured correctly.
I'd still really like to get the ignores working properly, by having a way to 
store out of-tree metadata that can change in format, even though some 
representation of it is editable by the user somewhere (such as .bzrmeta).

Cheers,

Jelmer