Hi Ben,<br> Thanks for the pointers. I'll make the changes you mentioned below, and I'll add a note about why I didn't look in to Mercurial (hg).<br><br>Which btw, is simply because at the time, hg, and Git had basically the same features, and supported the same protocols. Git seemed to have more mindshare, and I didn't feel the need to test both.<br>
<br>I'll be honest though, I haven't tried hg, so I'm not sure of any major differences and/or benefits.<br><br>Thanks,<br>Eric<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Ben Finney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ben%2Bbazaar@benfinney.id.au">ben+bazaar@benfinney.id.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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</div>I find it's best to avoid “SCM”, since to many people it means the<br>
related term “Software Configuration Management”, which is very<br>
different from a VCS but confusingly similar also.<br>
<br>
Best to use the common term VCS (Version Control System) which is pretty<br>
unambiguous.<br>
<br>
Why is Mercurial excluded from your list of candidates? You can expect<br>
that question if anyone has been aware of what VCS others have been<br>
talking about.<br>
<br>
In the “Idea to project” slide, an important distinction between Git and<br>
Bazaar in remote setup is that Bazaar remote repositories can be stored<br>
and published via existing standard protocols (HTTP, SFTP) without<br>
anything specific running on the remote end. I think that Git requires<br>
at least Git running on the remote end.<br></blockquote><div><br>I didn't think you could do writes over http? I remember reading in the documentation that bzr over http is read-only.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>
The count of commands is rather misleading. Those “60+ commands” are not<br>
necessary commands from Bazaar core, but from numerous extensions you<br>
may have installed. The set of core commands is listed by ‘bzr help’,<br>
some 13 commands.<br></blockquote><div><br>Ah, ok. I'll make a note of that. I did a 'bzr help commands' and counted the ones that weren't provided by a plugin - signified by the [plugin name] at the end of the command. Are there commands there that are provided by plugins, but aren't signified that way?<br>
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<br>
Thus, you might want to make the point about a rich collection of<br>
optional extensions, rather than giving the impression that all this<br>
stuff is necessary to use Bazaar from the start.<font color="#888888">
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</font></blockquote></div><br>It wasn't my intention to give the impression that all of this stuff is necessary to use Bazaar from the start, I merely wanted to point out that Bazaar comes with a lot of helpful tools/commands out of the box. More so than what comes with the base Git install.<br>
<br>Thanks for pointing this out though, I'll make a note to make sure that people don't think they'll need to use all of the available commands to make the most out of Bazaar.<br><br>Thanks again for all the pointers.<br>
<br>Cheers,<br>Eric<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Learn from the past. Live in the present. Plan for the future.<br>Blog: <a href="http://www.townsfolkdesigns.com/blogs/elberry">http://www.townsfolkdesigns.com/blogs/elberry</a><br>
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