Bazaar Mercurial Plugin to access BitBucket

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On 10/20/2011 11:55 PM, Brendan Simon (eTRIX) wrote:
> On 21/10/11 3:01 AM, bazaar-request at lists.canonical.com wrote:
> >>> > > So the big question is ..... why use Bazaar instead of Mercurial ??
> >>> > > Given Bazaar is no where near as widely used, what makes Bazaar so
> >>> > > different, so much better, that I should stay with Bazaar ??
> >> > There are probably other significant advantages (and maybe some of 
> these
> >> > are inaccurate or out of date), but I hope that gives some assistance.
> > Also see the much better written answer at
> > <URL:http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/migration/en/why-switch-to-bazaar.html>.
>
> Thanks everyone.  You've all been a great help.  I am now convinced to 
> stick with Bazaar (at least until I find that it doesn't work for me 
> -- which is unlikely).
>
> I can use either bzr-git or bzr-hg to access BitBucket :)  Next big 
> question.  Is one better than the other ??  What are the pros/cons ??
bzr-git is definitely the more mature of the two. bzr-hg I wouldn't 
recommend for production use yet. It mostly works, but you're bound to 
run into issues at some point. It will eat your cat.
>
> http://bzr.bz does look good now.  It looked very cheap and like one 
> man shop operating a server from home, but it now looks more 
> professional.  It's still commercial with a minimum of $10pm.  Very 
> cheap for a business, but still free is better for very small 
> companies, startup companies, etc.
>
> Finally, do you think there is a possibility that BitBucket would 
> support Bazaar natively ??
> Maybe SFTP or some other remote filesystem based access is do able??  
> Then again, might be able to do that with other sites that offer 
> free/cheap disk space ??
I'm not aware that they're working on anything (they haven't mentioned 
anything publicly as far as I can see), but I guess it's worth a shot to 
ask them.

Cheers,

Jelmer
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