Comments on: bzr, again

By: Jakub Narebski

Jakub Narebski — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 13:00:35 +0000

Git support pushing via HTTP(S) + WebDAV, without need for git installed on remote side (so called “dumb” transport).

It has from some time fetching via FTP, it should be fairly easy to add pushing via (S)FTP.

By: Chris Siebenmann

Chris Siebenmann — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 05:51:11 +0000

For two-way sync with Subversion, you might want to look at [url=http://darcs.net/DarcsWiki/Tailor]tailor[/url], which says it supports this for a number of version control systems. (I’ve yet to try it myself, so I don’t have any direct experience with how well it works.)

By: John Goerzen

John Goerzen — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 19:41:58 +0000

But is that entirely safe if users are actively pulling from the repo at the time? Also sshfs is not exactly a lightweight solution available on all hg platforms.

Don’t get me wrong, Mercurial is great and I prefer it over bzr, but I do think bzr has a feature of use to some here.

By: John Goerzen

John Goerzen — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 19:32:14 +0000

That’s not correct; you must have the darcs binary installed on the server for that.

By: Thomas Arendsen Hein

Thomas Arendsen Hein — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 19:09:12 +0000

Regarding “4. No server-side process necessary for pushing repos”:

Mercurial can pull from plain http servers since the very beginning (using static-http://), but of course this is much slower than with server side hg support.

Pushing without an hg server can be done with sshfs and a quick benchmark showed that it is as fast/slow as static-http.

By: Matthew Cox

Matthew Cox — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 19:07:01 +0000

Regarding #4

With darcs, you can push to remote servers that you have ssh-access to. There’s no server-side machinery needed.

By: Thomas Arendsen Hein

Thomas Arendsen Hein — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 18:38:57 +0000

Regarding “1. Renaming of directories”:
hg supports merges for renamed directories in the way you describe since 0.9.2 (released end of 2006)

By: olaf

olaf — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 18:27:31 +0000

somebody in #mercurial was asking whether all the fact assumed here are true about hg, and mpm said, that “fact #1″ is not true iirc!

By: Vasily Sulatskov

Vasily Sulatskov — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 17:15:49 +0000

Tags was available using plugin for ages.
See http://michael.ellerman.id.au/bzr/plugins/tags/

One doesn’t need to even google for it, as this plugin is listed here: http://bazaar-vcs.org/BzrPlugins

By: John Goerzen

John Goerzen — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 16:32:24 +0000

0.15 is supposed to have it.

By: teki321

teki321 — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 13:04:09 +0000

What about tagging ?

By: mike

mike — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 23:51:52 +0000

Next thing you could do is asking the hg, git and darcs guys, what they have and “the others” don’t.

Still very interesting.

I can see bzr being ahead in everything in about half a years time, but I think that bzr is a little bit too much fixed on Canoncial Products…

By: mike

mike — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 23:46:07 +0000

uploading repos via FTP will be soon possible with HG as well

pachi wrote a patch.