subversion vs cvs [not a troll]

[Matthew Flaschen]

John Toliver wrote:
> After the original post I decided to take a closer look at subversion. 
> Decided to go with bazaar as a subversion control program because it
> works with windows as well.

Bzr is *not* a subversion control program.  They are totally different.
 I recommend you start with a good tutorial whatever you use.

  I wanted it so I could manage the database
> project I have been working on.  My method of saving was simply
> overwrite the original with new changes.
> 
> I installed it on a windows box, shared a drive, created the subversion
> branch etc.

Can you clarify what commands you did?

 and everything seemed to go well until I made my first
> change to the database (an openoffice database btw.  Bazaar seems unable
> to see that I made a change.  Every time I type bzr commit -m "whatever
> comments I have" it tells me:
> 
> F:\UserData\JOHN\PROJECTS\PaperGenTool>bzr commit -m "did a test edit
> and added
> some garbage data to test record"
> Committing to: F:/UserData/JOHN/PROJECTS/PaperGenTool/
> bzr: ERROR: no changes to commit. use --unchanged to commit anyhow

Can you run:

bzr status

> My question is for something like this, is subversion, provided by
> bazaar not appropriate for this type of work? 

See above.

Matt Flaschen