Idioms of use with bzr-svn -- Bazaar/Launchpad workflow issue

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 08:46 +0100, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-05-22 at 16:57 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> > You can merge progress in the mainline into each feature branch
> > separately.  bzr will in general be smart enough to avoid conflicts
> > when merging the feature branches into a testing branch.  This isn't
> > as pretty as rebasing, but (with current technology) you can't rebase
> > public branches anyway.
> I guess my main irritant is keeping the patch that needs applying to the
> mainline up to date.  Subversion encourages non-committers to contribute
> by providing patches on an issue tracker.  By the time the committers
> get round to doing anything the patch is way out of date.  Which means
> you end up having to continually update the patch on the issue tracker.
> 
> I guess there is a need for something that allows Subversion-oriented
> committers to be able to handle merge requests from
> Bazaar-as-Subversion-client people.
I'm not sure I understand what the issue is you're trying to fix here -
surely if patches works for Subversion then why wouldn't Bazaar bundles
or patches work when working with Bazaar? What do you mean exactly by
continously having to keep the patch up to date?

Cheers,

Jelmer