Bazaar Mercurial Plugin to access BitBucket

Martin Geisler mg at lazybytes.net
Thu Oct 20 18:11:57 UTC 2011


Barry Warsaw <barry at canonical.com> writes:

> A few others jump to mind.  No disparagement of other dvcs's intended, and
> apologies in advance for any technical inaccuracies.
>
> * Very much nicer cli.  E.g. `bzr whoami` vs editing a config file.

I agree with that for Mercurial -- our normal counter-argument is that a
developer that is afraid of opening a config file is like a doctor that
is afraid of blood :-) But it just looks nicer for new users.

> * No need to also update working tree when you pull new changes.

Which of the systems require that?

> * `bzr resolve` doesn't blow away your local changes.

Running 'hg resolve' will no longer do that... but it used to happily
start your merge from scratch and we got many complaints about that.

-- 
Martin Geisler

Mercurial links: http://mercurial.ch/



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