-----Original Message----- From: Krzysztof Kosiński [mailto:tweenk.pl@...400...] Sent: 04 February 2011 21:57
2011/2/4 <J.B.C.Engelen@...1578...>:
(I have become to hate bzr with quite some passion, so my arguments
may
be biased.)
95% of your complaints are related to TortoiseBZR rather than Bazaar itself.
The GUI situation is not perfect in Bazaar. For now I think it's better to learn to use it from the command line - I've never had problems this way. The CLI is much easier to understand than Git, and in some respects even easier than SVN (for example, no possibility of mixed-revision tree, which never made any sense for me).
You can also check out QBzr; it's not an Explorer extension like Tortoise projects, but it gives you GUI dialogs for most operations. There is a Windows installer here: http://wiki.bazaar.canonical.com/QBzr
Yes indeed I am complaining about the UI for bzr. I call the whole user experience 'bzr', whether it is the CLI or UI or website. TortoiseBZR is QBzr (plus the icon overlays), by the way. If it is not doable by UI, I refuse to do it (except for 'bzr update'). For two reasons: 1. otherwise it will never get fixed, 2. I don't want to spend time that way. My Inkscape time is extremely limited, and I want to have fun while working on Inkscape. Now I start working a bit on Inkscape again, and... the bzr irritations have started almost immediately :-(
And to repeat, I really am willing to pay money to go back to SVN.
I am willing to pay 2x more than you to stay with Bazaar, because - for example - I would not be able to maintain the Cairo rendering branch using SVN. It would just take too much time due to SVN slowness.
:-) I have maintained an SVN branch for a while (2geomification). That indeed was not so much fun, because there was not a good UI to do it. Once I figured out the svn commands it was OKish. Speed I cannot remember. I suppose indeed for this bzr is easier. But please note that you are one of the really very few devs that have such a big project that it deserves a branch.
By the way, I'm not dismissing your complaints - I just think that resolving them is going to be much more productive in the long run than going back to a centralized VCS.
Perhaps I should come back after another year, and see if the bzr experience has improved.
Ciao, Johan