question on difference between bazaar and subversion

[Jordan Mantha]

On 4/24/06, Jonathan Jesse <jjesse at iserv.net> wrote:
> Can someone please explain how/why we would like to move to bazaar over
> subversion?  I know that bazaar is maintained/developed by Canonical but what
> are the improvements to managing things over subversion?

I use bzr (bazaar-ng) for most of my MOTU work. I think one of the
main advantages for us, IMO anyway, is that you can pull in other
peoples changes (http or sftp). I think that would mean that we
wouldn't need diffs much anymore. We would just merge the persons repo
into ours. We can still have a central repository (or something very
close to it) but also have distributed control. For instance, I think
it would be much easier for the contributors if they can freely merge
and pull from each other before having a doc team member push the
changes to the central repo. Community contributors (including doc
team members) can group around a specific doc in a way that would just
be very difficult in svn.

I'm a version control newb, and I like bzr (especially for local use).
One thing I like is there aren't .svn directories all over the place.
There is only one .bzr directory at top of the repo, and that's it. I
also like that it is really pretty easy to use. There shouldn't be
much of any problem for us convert, as far as daily usage, as bzr has
a pretty easy interface.

-Jordan