[Adium-devl] bzr instead of hg?

[Peter Hosey]

On Jun 18, 2008, at 16:08:30, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 1:59 AM, Peter Hosey <prh at boredzo.org> wrote:
>> Advantages:
>>
>> - msn-pecan uses bzr
>>
> Nope, msn-pecan uses git.

Rats. I didn't look at your Launchpad URL; I just assumed that you  
were using it for versioning, too. I guess you just use it for bug- 
tracking, then?

> AFAIK bzr support for svn is quite good, just like git's.

It's bad, just like Tailor's. By “bad”, I mean that it can't handle  
a commit that touches multiple branches (e.g., trunk and a branch at  
the same time).

However, as I said, it's been a long time since I tried to convert our  
repo to Bazaar, so maybe they fixed this. (I kinda doubt it, but as I  
said, we should probably check.)

> BTW, my mtn->git script is basically done, so soon I'll publish an  
> exact replica of Pidgin's mtn repo in git.

That would be helpful. Git has some disadvantages, though:

1. Harder to learn (less svn-like and some bigger paradigm differences)
2. Doesn't provide monotonic revision numbers