Comments on: Why I choose Bazaar (a history of revision control)

By: madduck

madduck — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 12:07:52 +0000

I addressed the points in your (email-)reply: http://blog.madduck.net/vcs/2007.09.29_uninformed-slagger

By: Mikkel HÃ¸gh

Mikkel HÃ¸gh — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:09:47 +0000

@madduck: I don’t think that “uninformed slagger” is a really courteous way to describe the opinion of someone else. That aside, I think you might well consider that git has some serious tradeoffs:
http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/125
http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/123

That might not matter to you, but it sure does to me…

By: madduck

madduck — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:50:21 +0000

Really, please don’t spout fud about Git when you don’t seem to understand it: http://blog.madduck.net/vcs/2007.09.29_uninformed-slagger

By: Spacebat

Spacebat — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 04:52:10 +0000

The greatest strengths of SVN are its maturity and broad acceptance, and the use of SVK as a front-end. With SVK you get many of the benefits of other more distributed solutions. I also like that SVN has two storage formats, BerkelyDB or SVN’s own FSFS. I use the latter in order to have fewer package dependencies and find SVN rock solid.

By: Brian Schlining

Brian Schlining — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:44:43 +0000

I’ve been using mercurial.

By: James Stansell

James Stansell — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 23:33:50 +0000

Thanks for this post.

In “trial and commonplace” should that be “trivial”?

-james.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 00:14:05 +0000

“The cost of this single new feature was a much more complicated interface (with two separate commands), a backend that tended to break down weekly and a lethargic slowness to its operation.”

I do appreciate that this statement was a segway on your way to bzr, but I’ve never had any of these problems with svn. It’s a great tool, and it achieves its goal of being a better cvs.

By: pachi

pachi — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 22:05:07 +0000

I think you should have a try to Mercurial. It’s as fast as git (even faster sometimes) and has a much saner UI, as bazaar. Also, IMHO, it’s more cleanly designed.

By: anon

anon — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 20:07:03 +0000

Sorry, but git works the way I do. bzr/Arch/etc. all left unnecessary detritus in my history, both for solo work on different platforms and in a close-knit team. Nice thing about git is that it tries to play nice with other systems. I can use git myself while still contributing to projects that use svn, bzr, cvs…

So ultimately my choice is up to me, yours is up to you. Just say that you like bzr more, not that system XXX is lacking (except cvs, which really does suck for most uses).

By: bartman

bartman — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:53:39 +0000

err, s/bzr/git/ in the last example.