Comments on: Using Bazaar Like Git + ‘repoalias’ Plugin

By: Greg Slepak

Greg Slepak — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:55:56 +0000

Thanks for catching that David! I’ve updated the post to that effect.

By: David Marble

David Marble — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:26:55 +0000

The argument to ‘init-repo’ should be ‘–no-trees’, not ‘–no-tree’. ‘–no-tree’ is used for creating a single branch without a working tree.

bzr init-repo –no-trees .bzr-repo

By: Ali Sabil (asabil) 's status on Wednesday, 23-Sep-09 12:17:38 UTC - Identi.ca

Ali Sabil (asabil) 's status on Wednesday, 23-Sep-09 12:17:38 UTC - Identi.ca — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:17:47 +0000

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By: Greg Slepak

Greg Slepak — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:43:56 +0000

I'm by no means a bzr expert yet, I would try asking on the #bzr irc channel, there are lots of helpful folks there, or try the mailing list.

By: Paul Brannan

Paul Brannan — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:56:06 +0000

I like the idea of being able to branch and switch between local branches easily, but something that’s not mentioned is how to push those branches back to the remote repository. With git I can use git push –all (I usually do want all my branches to be backed up on the server, no matter how trivial), but it’s not obvious how to do that with this setup. Any thoughts?

By: Greg Slepak

Greg Slepak — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:23:40 +0000

Ah, I follow you now, I see that I did not state that in the post, thanks for pointing that out. The layouts recommended by the guide are similar enough in principle to the SVN layout though (and different enough from the Git style), that I hope the point still gets across in the post. Meaning, why and how one would want to use the Git-style.

By: John Millikin

John Millikin — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:11:20 +0000

Perhaps I was unclear. The layout you copied is *not* a Bazaar layout at all. Tags are not managed as separate branches in Bazaar, but are per-branch objects managed using the “bzr tag” command. The example you used is how a repository would be arranged in Subversion.

The Bazaar version is a bit further down the page; it is the second code listing in section 10.3.1.1

By: Greg Slepak

Greg Slepak — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:08:29 +0000

Thanks John, my point was simply to illustrate a common Bazaar layout, not to suggest that there is a preferred one. Note how the one I copied is actually rather similar to yours.

By: John Millikin

John Millikin — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:24:26 +0000

You copied the wrong segment from the Bazaar user guide — specifically, the “svn” layout. Bazaar doesn’t have a preferred layout, because directories can be placed anywhere and still work.

For example, this is my layout:

+ project/
–+ trunk/
–+ add-feature-foo/
–+ bug-12345_bar-crashes/

By: Lewis Zhang

Lewis Zhang — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:14:47 +0000

Excellent post! Especially enjoying the Repoalias plugin. Nice work.