checkout that sat there for hours downloading multiple gbs but never produced usable checkout, (thats the main issue with the slow) multiple times when the checkout decided it wasnt a checkout, and refused to accept bzr commands. (ending up with me scratching the entire folder and checking out again - once again, not the fastest process) The tortoise client isnt worth the hardrive it takes to install, which is a huge loss vs how easy svn was to use. It doesnt matter to me that the commands are the same, I never needed to learn any commands with SVN, the client worked.
2011/2/4 Krzysztof Kosiński <tweenk.pl@...400...>:
2011/2/4 John Cliff <john.cliff@...400...>:
Bzr was a big part of me pretty much giving up trying with the main codebase. Last few times I found some spare time to try I just spent an entire evening getting pissed at how difficult something that should be trivial was being made by a bad tool. Slow, unreliable, and fairly incomprehensible.
The only slow thing I encountered in Bazaar was the initial checkout and pushing a new branch to LP, everything else is fairly quick - no different from SVN, which also takes some time to do those operations. Committing to a remote branch is far quicker in Bazaar.
As for incomprehensible - replacing "svn" with "bzr" in a corresponding SVN command makes things work 95% of the time. This argument would have some merit if we used Git, which is vastly different and uses a lot of idiosyncratic concepts, but I can't see how it applies to Bazaar. For the user, the only basic thing different between those two is the conflict resolution, which I admit is a little harder in Bazaar.
It would be useful to know what exactly was your problem, otherwise I can't suggest any solution.
Regards, Krzysztof