Comments on: Browsable bzr repository

By: Paul Kuliniewicz

Paul Kuliniewicz — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:46:18 +0000

It doesn’t look like gnomeradio has any kind of IPC interface that would let Music Applet work with it.

By: rinsenrepeat

rinsenrepeat — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:53:31 +0000

any chance music applet can work with gnomeradio, to change pre-set radio stations and stuff? also display the name of the current station? heheh

By: Paul Kuliniewicz

Paul Kuliniewicz — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:34:20 +0000

24 hours and no new problem. That’s a good sign.

By: Paul Kuliniewicz

Paul Kuliniewicz — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 02:56:17 +0000

Aaaaand fixed some other permissions problems that came up for some reason. I think.

By: Paul Kuliniewicz

Paul Kuliniewicz — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:53:37 +0000

I think I’ve fixed the problem where the repository browser would stop working after a while.

By: Paul Kuliniewicz

Paul Kuliniewicz — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 03:30:20 +0000

bzr is nice for small projects since you don’t need to set up a central repository at all, not even locally; it stores all its bookkeeping in a .bzr directory inside the project. That makes getting started even easier than needing to set up a CVS or Subversion repository somewhere on your computer. With such a low barrier to entry, there’s little excuse for not using revision control, even for fairly trivial things.

Branching is done by copying (possibly with hard links where possible to minimize space used). bzr will happily fetch external repositories via HTTP, so you can do something like bzr get http://www.kuliniewicz.org/music-applet/bzr/music-applet/. Incidentally, that’s just a mirror of the “true” repository I have on my laptop. After making changes, I just rsync it to the server.

Even though bzr supports distributed revision control, I’ve never really used it for that, so I don’t know how well it stacks up against git (which I imagine must be pretty good, given that it’s design was driven by the kernel developers’ needs).

By: Jeff Moser

Jeff Moser — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 02:29:35 +0000

I haven’t used either, so I was curious myself. It just seems like the folks that are using more distributed source systems are using git now (trickling down from Linux kernel development) and thus perhaps better tools will come with it.

However, I think that for personal projects it doesn’t really matter. I’ve been using Subversion without problems. Although, I’m moving my only real open source project to CodePlex which has its own system (Based on Team Foundation Server).

By: Paul Kuliniewicz

Paul Kuliniewicz — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:35:22 +0000

fluffy: Work on Wallace has been stalled for a while. Whenever I finally start on it again, I’ll make the repo browsable, but until then, there isn’t much point.

Jeff: I haven’t really ever looked at git. What advantages does it have over something like bzr?

By: Jeff Moser

Jeff Moser — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:56:50 +0000

I’m just curious, would you still use bzr if you were to start from scratch now or would you pick git?

By: fluffy

fluffy — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:02:47 +0000

Yeah, I was only coming here to comment on the lack of Wallace as well. I don’t use Gnome and don’t see the appeal to Bridge, so…