using bazaar for backup and synchronization of home directory

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Gary Furash writes:

[others have answered 1 and 2 at least as well as I can]

 > 3. would 1 prohibit you from using your companies' source control sytem
 > (e.g., git) for subsets of items

No.  For one thing, until the advent of fastimport, the way that all
of the synchronizing techniques worked was to have multiple control
directories in the tree being synchronized.

Probably the easiest way to handle it is to arrange that each VCS
ignores all of each subdirectory controlled by other VCSes where
possible.  Ignore the control subdirectory (.git, .hg, .bzr, .svn,
etc) and files under control of other VCSes where VCSes share control
of a directory (but this should be avoided if at all possible, for
obvious reasons).

In the case of bzr, which likes to put branches under a shared
repository, you probably should keep the repository somewhere
completely separate from your working files, and keep the working
files in a checkout.  (That's probably going to be necessary anyway
for a home directory.)