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[Anton Gladky <gladky.anton@xxxxxxxxx>]

So, what decision we accept?

Do we switch to BZR?
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Anton Gladkyy


2009/7/29 Václav Šmilauer <eudoxos@xxxxxxxx>

>
>  we tried to migrate once. The problem was an insanely long first
>> checkout and huge amount of used disk space. Does this problem is
>> still present in BZR ? Also see:
>>
>>   https://lists.launchpad.net/yade-dev/msg00163.html
>>
>> Two years passed since then, so BZR should have improved now.
>>
>>
> The initial full checkout is quite fast if you get the full history (say a
> few minutes, depending on your connection; the very low speed was caused by
> many roundtrips), which takes something like 40MB on the disk (just
> guessing, as there is only a part of history in at the launchpad mirror
> branch). Then, all operations (like diff) are local and run fast.
>
> If you do a shallow checkout (just the latest version), it is very fast. On
> the other hand, all commands on the branch depend on access to the
> repository (including diff); speaking of myself, I use this only before
> commit to check what everything changes, so no big deal.
>
> There is a feature called "history horizons" in development, that will
> allow you to get just a few version's history; that would be best for us,
> but it is not yet available (maybe in a few months?).
>
> For my part, what I find the most compelling is the ability to commit
> locally (and revert etc), so you can save snapshots of your work and push to
> the shared repository only once everything works. Handling renames and moves
> is more intelligent. And we would have most things at launchpad, which would
> allos us to easily have separate branch for a release backporting some fixes
> and so on. Brnching is very powerful concept and bzr is nice that it allows
> you to have decentralized workflow, but also centralized (svn-like) one if
> you want so.
>
> Vaclav
>
>
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