Bzr development stopped

[Chris Hecker]

I may be in the minority, but I don't care that much about the ui or
simplicity of the command line, but I need to be able to rename files
without duplicating them in the repo, I want empty directories, I want
the hybrid centralized stuff (and more of this, actually), and I need
windows support to be good.

I don't think there has to be a single winner, but I do hope bzr doesn't
die on the vine.  It works well enough for me now, but I'd like it to
get better.

Chris



On 2012/11/24 14:02, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-11-24 at 12:34 -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote:
>> On Nov 23, 2012, at 10:15 PM, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
>>> For myself to be interested in contributing to Bazaar (and I suspect for
>>> others as well), I think it's important to have a vision for the
>>> project. Retrospectives would be useful here.
>>>
>>> I've considered doing a friendly fork (no CLA's, etc) of Bazaar that
>>> integrated bzr-git and bzr-fastimport (and perhaps other plugins) and
>>> switched it to the git format as the default format, rather than 2a.
>>> That way it would just be another part of the git ecosystem rather than
>>> its own small corner of the world.
>>
>> As you know, I've advocated for something like this for many years.  I know
>> when we've talked about this in the past, it was pointed out that git format
>> doesn't support everything that 2a supports.  You'd know the details much
>> better than I, but IIRC, renames and directory tracking were the two main
>> missing features.  Still, it might be easier to join forces and lobby for
>> improvements in git format from within.
> You have. :-) bzr-git has some experimental support for tracking empty
> directories, renames and revision properties in the git format. It still
> needs a lot of work before that is usable in production though (just run
> the bzr repository tests against bzr-git to see).
> 
>> I don't see Bazaar or Mercurial going away any time soon, but I think git has
>> basically won top dog.  So I'd vote for making it usable for normal humans by
>> keeping as much of Bazaar's superior ui and model as possible.
> Agreed.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jelmer
> 
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