Switch from SVN to xxx ?

[Gordon Tyler]

On 04/06/2010 8:51 AM, Gary van der Merwe wrote:
> 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.)

I did not know that. Bazaar doesn't make it very obvious what operations
you can perform on a shared repository. The docs and the GUIs all imply
fairly strongly that a shared repository is just a dumb container for
sharing revisions between branches.

Ciao,
Gordon