Bazaar and Visual Studio

[Talden]

> I'm at a Java shop that uses Subversion, and am quietly attempting to
> promote Bazaar - I see the above two issues as the most likely sticking
> points.

They've proven to be a show-stopper here. Developers are split 50/50
between Eclipse and Intellij IDEA and use the VCS integration of the
IDE and of Explorer (TortoiseSVN) extensively.

Demonstrating some of the features bazaar would provide -
true-renames, good merge-tracking, local history (we're a looong way
from the server), local branches, ... - produced very positive
feedback.  Showing the lack of IDE integration ended the discussion.

Some things are just better done in the IDE or with a GUI - viewing
diffs, performing conflict resolution, refactoring, annotation, ...

I'm aware this is open source and without volunteers (and often paying
sponsors) there's nothing that can be done but I expect that without
progress on IDE and shell integration our workplace will never move to
bazaar (there is some progress on shell integration thankfully).

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Talden