Loosing fate about "plays nice with others"

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 03:55:14PM +0200, Propadovic Nenad wrote:
> I got the task to examine a new VCS for SW-development at a small company,
> so I choose Bazaar over Hg and Git, it just looked very friendly.
> Especially the "plays nice with others"-philosophy.
> 
> First task:
> see how Bazaar handles the two repositories of an OS-project named
> OpenClinica (my company builds SW based on this project). The old one is
> subversion-based, the other, they chose Hg.
> 
> So I tried both. Both bzr-hg and bzr-svn fail to do the job.
> 
> Well bzr-hg gives you the feeling you shouldn't use it anyway - with its
> diminishing check-ins, not being ready "yet" etc.,  but I tried, and
> failed. Last try:
bzr-hg isn't really maintained these days; I wouldn't recommend it. 

> But bzr-svn just seemed ready for the job - it's included by default, seems
> well supported...
> Again, just my last try out of several:
> 
> bzr svn-import
> https://svn.akazaresearch.com/openclinica/OpenClinica/tags/OpenClinica-3.1.2-Community/projects/..\svnimport_akakaaza
> -Ossl.cert_reqs=none

"bzr svn-import" takes a project URL and imports multiple branches; for
importing a single branch, use "bzr branch".

Also, bzr-svn doesn't support backslashes in URLs.

Cheers,

Jelmer