-----Original Message----- From: Jon Cruz [mailto:jon@...18...] Sent: 06 February 2011 03:51
On Feb 4, 2011, at 10:02 AM, <J.B.C.Engelen@...1578...> wrote:
And to repeat, I really am willing to pay money to go back to SVN
Unfortunatley you seem to be hit by the main drawback with Bazaar - lack of GUI tools. Actually that's a general thing I've seen across most distributed VCS's out there. I think part of this is that the world-view of those writing and using the tools does not intersect
some
other views of source and source control. Even lack of a good GUI diff is a problem.
I recall that on MS Windows when working with CVS, the best
combination
I had was using both TortoiseCVS and TkCVS in tandem.
We've gotten to the point where I think I may just have to step up and do something. Extending or fixing TortoiseBZR is not right in my main set of doables right now (a bit hard to do from OS X or Ubuntu), however I think I can get some base tool more like TkCVS/SVN or p4v going.
It seems that merely getting something to check the state of things on a local setup and then assist in following and recommending some of
the
more efficient Bazaar workflows might be beneficial. Johan, do you think such a tool could help you out?
I think you should not start creating a new tool. This usually does not work out very well imho in open source land :-) Much more desirable is improve an existing tool.
I guess what we Windows devs are looking for is the shiny polish of TortoiseSVN. TortoiseBZR at the moment has usability gaps and needs speed improvements for every day tasks, compared to TortoiseSVN. It seems there is still active development on TBZR, so... perhaps we should wait and see. I just enabled the icon overlays again for TBZR, it works, and is faster than it used to be. I'll guess I'll start submitting wishlist items to its launchpad page.
Cheers, Johan