Bzr is dying; Emacs needs to move

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Post by __david__ » Thu, Jan 02, 2014, 11:14 AM UTC

Bzr is dying; Emacs needs to move
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Re: Bzr is dying; Emacs needs to move

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Post by midas007 » Thu, Jan 02, 2014, 11:17 AM UTC

Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6999094

Re: Bzr is dying; Emacs needs to move

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Post by djm_ » Thu, Jan 02, 2014, 11:30 AM UTC

For those wondering: Vim is currently on Mercurial @ Google Code [1]

[1] http://www.vim.org/sources.php

Re: Bzr is dying; Emacs needs to move

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Post by guns » Thu, Jan 02, 2014, 11:36 AM UTC

djm_ wrote: post #3

For those wondering: Vim is currently on Mercurial @ Google Code [1] [1] http://www.vim.org/sources.php

And happily for git users, the git-hg plugin makes maintaining a git mirror of the vim hg repo very convenient:

https://github.com/cosmin/git-hg

Submitting patches upstream is also not a problem as Bram Moolenaar only accepts patch files on the dev mailing list.

Re: Bzr is dying; Emacs needs to move

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Post by rjzzleep » Thu, Jan 02, 2014, 11:44 AM UTC

the most annoying thing about bzr in my opinion is it's stupid branching model. luckily a migration to git is a oneliner.

git init ; bzr fast-export --plain | git fast-import

Re: Bzr is dying; Emacs needs to move

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Post by icebraining » Thu, Jan 02, 2014, 11:50 AM UTC

rjzzleep wrote: post #5

the most annoying thing about bzr in my opinion is it's stupid branching model. luckily a migration to git is a oneliner. git init ; bzr fast-export --plain | git fast-import

luckily a migration to git is a oneliner.

I wish. Unfortunately, not all repos we use are owned by us, and using two VCSs is worse than sticking with bzr.

Re: Bzr is dying; Emacs needs to move

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Post by crncosta » Thu, Jan 02, 2014, 11:53 AM UTC

"git won the mindshare war"

Sad, but true...

Re: Bzr is dying; Emacs needs to move

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Post by Aqwis » Thu, Jan 02, 2014, 11:54 AM UTC

Oddly, both Bazaar, Git and Mercurial were created around March/April 2005. Why the sudden appearance of popular DVCSs around that time, and why did Bazaar fall behind the other two in popularity?

Re: Bzr is dying; Emacs needs to move

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Post by zobzu » Thu, Jan 02, 2014, 11:57 AM UTC

Aqwis wrote: post #8

Oddly, both Bazaar, Git and Mercurial were created around March/April 2005. Why the sudden appearance of popular DVCSs around that time, and why did Bazaar fall behind the other two in popularity?

git is used by a bigger project (the kernel), that's mainly why. they're all ok, otherwise, even with their technical differences.

github also contributed to amplify the adoption as its makes it really easy to use (even thus people generally use git in a non-distributed way with github)

(i do prefer git in usage, tho, but thats subjective i suppose)

Re: Bzr is dying; Emacs needs to move

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Post by iv_08 » Thu, Jan 02, 2014, 11:59 AM UTC

Aqwis wrote: post #8

Oddly, both Bazaar, Git and Mercurial were created around March/April 2005. Why the sudden appearance of popular DVCSs around that time, and why did Bazaar fall behind the other two in popularity?

Canonical mismanagement, contributor license agreement, missing manpower.