Bazaar Mercurial Plugin to access BitBucket

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On 10/19/2011 05:38 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:19:39 +0200
>> From: Jelmer Vernooij<jelmer at samba.org>
>> CC: bazaar at lists.canonical.com
>>
>>> Isn't it true that bzr-git does not yet support "push", only "dpush"?
>> Yes, but that works pretty well too. I've been using it for all my
>> contributions to Samba for the last year or so.
> Btw, as long as we are talking about this -- could you explain the
> difference between these two commands?  The documentation just says
> laconically "without any custom bzr metadata", which sounds like only
> the plain diffs are sent upstream, is that true?  If so, what happens
> to the history of my local branch if I merge from another branch and
> then dpush?
"bzr push" is lossless, it either fails or preserves all data that is 
present in your local branch.

"bzr dpush" is lossy, and pushes only data that can be represented 
natively in the remote format. This for example means that if the target 
format doesn't0 a concept of authors (versus committers), then author 
information will discarded (as is the case with svn). For git this means 
that revision properties (such as the data specified with "bzr commit 
--fixes...") are discarded)

dpush will update your local branch to contain the same history as the 
remote branch, unless you specify --no-rebase. This means that after the 
dpush operation it will have a diverged history from that of branches 
which have not been stripped of unrepresentable data (in other words, 
branches which have not been dpushed).

Cheers,

Jelmer