A related blog post http://griddlenoise.blogspot.com/2008/04/what-dvcs-gives-me.html
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Edward K. Ream <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Apr 9, 5:33 pm, "Edward K. Ream" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I never dreamed that bzr would make such a difference to the Leo project. > > It now seems to me that bzr does for backup what Python did for > programming. In my white paper about Python, I mentioned Python's > safety: > > http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/whitepapers.html#safety > > Last night I realized the same kinds of remarks apply to bzr. It > doesn't matter how many branches are created, or the order in which > they are merged. Nothing is dangerous, except possibly not creating > branches to hold intermediate work. :-) > > For example, I have just created a sax branch. It contains last > night's work removing all non-sax code from Leo's fileCommands read > code. Last night I could just blast away this crucial code. No > worries. I was working in the devel branch, but when it became clear > that the project was going to take more work, I just pushed what I had > to the sax branch. Now I can revert (pull) the devel branch if I > like, and work on the sax branch at my leisure. > > In essence, bzr makes it possible to delay decisions about what > branches should, or should not, be created, and decisions about what > code is, or is not, safe to release. None of the choices are final: > they can always be modified later. > > The *effect* of bzr is that I can work on multiple branches > simultaneously. Never again will I worry about what "should" come > first. I'll just do my work, save to branches, and decide later when > and how to merge into the ekr-devel or trunk branch. This is my idea > of complete safety. > > Edward > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
