Bazaar Mercurial Plugin to access BitBucket

[John Meinel]

Does dpush recognize multiple pushes? If I commit A B in one branch, switch
to branch 2 and commit C D. Then I dpush branch 1, and then branch 2. Will
branch 2 on the remote side share history with branch 1?

John
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On Oct 20, 2011 2:01 AM, "Jelmer Vernooij" <jelmer at samba.org> wrote:

> 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
>
>
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