<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Rahul Nabar wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:c4d69730804111624g50ee20e2j62bd0e5687dc78e@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Dave Compton <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:to.dave.c@gmail.com"><to.dave.c@gmail.com></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">The environment I use is probably not the *best* way but it works reasonably well and may be of interest to you (particularly since you work in linux). </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Thanks for your very helpful comments Dave! It may not be the best, sure, but it still helps me to have inputs from other users about what works well and what does not. Maybe, I'll end up with some hybrid solution based on what options different users recommend! I am being a bit cautious with deplyoying Bazaar in WinXP, since, in my experience, if things "break" within Windows its a real pain to figure out why and to fix them! I guess it goes with the lack of transparency that pervades all things "windows"! :) </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> I use bazaar from the command line and the command line is a cygwin bash shell. I almost never use the windows xp "cmd shell". </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> That does sound like a good option. I think I already have cygwin on this machine. The only drawback I remember concerned paths: Windows paths tend to have spaces in them and handling that seemed like a pain the last time I tried something similar. But possibly because that was a "win cmd shell"! Have you faced this at all? </pre> </blockquote> Yes, paths with embedded spaces are a pain.  For the most part, I avoid the pain by: <ul> <li>Keeping my home environment in a directory with no spaces in the path.</li> <li>Using "cd" to go to a directory with a space in the path if the space *has* to be there for some reason and then working within that directory ( for example, if you want to put your desktop under version control).  A bash alias  helps here: alias cdesk='cd /cygdrive/c/Documents\ And\ Settings/Dave/Desktop'</li> <li>Using scripts ( like the bzr script in my first e-mail) to start windows programs that I want to run from my bash shell.</li> </ul> Still not pain free but these techniques help quite a bit. - Dave <blockquote cite="mid:c4d69730804111624g50ee20e2j62bd0e5687dc78e@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Otherwise on Linux I'm a total "command line person" hardly ever touching the GUI! On Windows though I'll be working in the GUI (Word and ppt!); so a win-explorer or similar solution might be easiest. (If its easy-to-use I'll end up versioning with more discipline!) I'll wait a bit to see if other Win users have stories to tell! -Rahul </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>