On Friday 08 Jan 2010 18:33:03 Dan MacNeil wrote: > secret python sympathizer Dan writes: > >>How much better bzr is than svn ? > > The venerable Shlomi Fish writes: > >Bzr sucks from my experience (and that of others): > > > > http://community.livejournal.com/shlomif_tech/41922.html > > Cool, A holy fun religous emacs / vi type holy war. > > Cooler, with consenting adults who don't take this too seriously. > > First of all (appeal to authority) svn sucks see: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8 > > ....Linus Torvald's telling google their code hosting sucks because they > use svn. >
I don't have the energy to see such a long video. I hate most technical videos. Is there a transcript? > Of course (for me) svn sucks much less than cvs and I was very grateful > to the svn developers for creating it and letting me use it for free. > > Second, for things that I care about, bzr is very not sucky especially > relative to subversion. For example, branching and merging is > ridiculously easy. > > http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/34 > Branching and merging are easy in svn. > Renaming is a first class operation. See > > http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/123 > > I'm ok waiting 1.6 seconds for a diff if I don't have to physically > remove a file before doing a 'svn remove' Never had to do that. > > Though for me, waiting 1.6 seconds for a diff is not actually necessary. > > time bzr diff README > > real 0m0.224s > user 0m0.180s > sys 0m0.044s > > time bzr diff app-mvhub/DocumentRoot/cgi-bin/mvhub/admin/admin.pl > > real 0m0.254s > user 0m0.196s > sys 0m0.052s > OK. You're timing up "bzr diff" for a specific file that has not been changed. Please: 1. Change one of the files by doing "echo Hello >> file". 2. And then run "bzr diff" with no extra arguments. Furthermore, like I said in my blog post, I was unable to "bzr branch" the "lp:inkscape" repository because the process became very slow and ended up terminating with a non-functional clone of the repository that I couldn't use "bzr pull" on. It took many minutes and left me needing to do it all again. By all means, it should have let me resume from the place I got to, but no - it gave me a broken and useless checkout. How can I effectively contribute to "lp:inkscape" with its inane choice of bzr? Regards, Shlomi Fish > _______________________________________________ > Boston-pm mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ "Star Trek: We, the Living Dead" - http://shlom.in/st-wtld Bzr is slower than Subversion in combination with Sourceforge. ( By: http://dazjorz.com/ ) _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
