Bzr development stopped WAS Re: Branching from just a part of a repository?

[Chris Hecker]

I much prefer bzr over git and hg as well, and this makes me sad.

Chris



On 2012/09/05 07:18, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>> [ and since Bzr development seems to have pretty much stopped anyway,
>>> even if there were interest it would be very unlikely to see the
>>> light of day ;-) ]
>> Is this a joke?
> 
> No, that wasn't a joke.  Just a remark based on what I see happening.
> Very few commits in bzr.dev, very few posts on this mailing-list, very
> few bugs fixed (even apparently trivial ones like
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/1022160).
> Add to this the departure of a lead developer, and I think the situation
> is pretty clear.
> 
> As for me, it just means that the pressure to switch Emacs's repository
> to Git gets every day stronger.
> 
> 
>         Stefan
> 
> 
> PS: I generally like using Bzr (which I use for pretty much all my VCS
> needs), but as unfixed bugs accumulate, I'm beginning to feel a bit like
> in the bad CVS days where you just had to get used to circumventing its
> limitations, for lack of actual development.
> 
> 
>