Switch from SVN to xxx ?

[Gary van der Merwe]

On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Gordon Tyler <gordon.tyler at gmail.com> wrote:
> The company I work for has been converting from CVS to SVN and one of
> the things that both CVS and SVN do (although SVN requires a 3rd party
> tool to really show it) is provide information on which branches a
> particular change in trunk is present. This is incredibly useful when
> tracking down bugs from support escalations.
>
> The problem with DVCS that use separate repositories to represent
> branches is that it becomes very hard to find this information because
> the tools are only aware or can only operate on one repository at a
> time. Git and Mercurial are not so bad in this regard because they can
> have branches in repositories and you can track the history graph
> through their graphical log commands, but Bazaar currently does not have
> this capability, as far as I know.

If you have the branches in a shared repository, you can do bzr qlog
in the repo. (May be I'm miss understanding you.)