Bazaar Mercurial Plugin to access BitBucket

[Ben Finney]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:

> Colocated branches may make it easier to push new heads, but the real
> issue is concurrent development.

Like Barry, I'm glad Bazaar does one-directory-per-branch.

But I can definitely (now) see the attraction of choosing colocated
branches when appropriate. I look forward to a Bazaar release (in
Debian) with this feature.

> For developers experienced in such workflows, it may be that no
> constraint is necessary. But I would not set up a project repository
> in Bazaar without configuring the appropriate policy to protect the
> mainline (I think it's "bzr init --append-revisions-only"). Wrong-way
> merges are an attractive nuisance in Bazaar.

That's a darned good point, and thank you for connecting it with the
solution. I will try to remember this criticism of Bazaar next time I'm
asked, it is a valid one.

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Ben Finney