[Gnu-arch-users] Re: The future of GNU Arch users

2005-09-09 Thread Martin Pool
On Thu, 08 Sep 2005 18:51:51 +0200, Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Aaron Bentley wrote: > >> Ironically, one of the reasons we started requiring 2.4 (we previously >> required 2.3) was that 2.4 has the subprocess module, which makes >> crossplatform compatibility a lot better. > > the subprocess module

[Gnu-arch-users] Re: details is details, not punctuation

2005-09-09 Thread Martin Pool
On Thu, 08 Sep 2005 17:44:36 +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 05:14:17PM -0700, Thomas Lord wrote: >> Arch was forked because I declined an offer for employment from >> Canonical because I found the details of the offer to be obnoxious. > > I'm rather curious about those de

Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Future of GNU Arch, bazaar and bazaar-ng ... ?

2005-08-21 Thread Martin Pool
On 8/21/05, Jan Hudec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To state a more precise definition, Bazaar-NG only allows one head in > a given tree (each working copy is a branch and vice versa, so I'll call it > together a tree) at any given time. So if what you pull is descendant of your > current head, you

Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Future of GNU Arch, bazaar and bazaar-ng ... ?

2005-08-21 Thread Martin Pool
On 8/21/05, Jan Hudec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the clarification. > > So it behaves similarly to git and mercurial (and monotone), That's correct. > except mercurial > (but not git) will not insist on merging immediately. Yes. The default behaviour of bzr is meant to be more f

Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Future of GNU Arch, bazaar and bazaar-ng ... ?

2005-08-21 Thread Martin Pool
On 8/21/05, John A Meinel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just as a point of clarification, bazaar-ng (bzr) is actually snapshot > centric, rather than patch-centric. > It does similar hashing for everything. But it associates a unique > identifier to each hash, rather than using the hash as the iden

[Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla changes vs. baz status

2005-06-21 Thread Martin Pool
On 21 Jun 2005, Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/21/05, Aaron Bentley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I guess the thing I like about the current output format for bzr is that > > it's more accessible to new users, because they don't have to read a > > legend to decipher it. > > Uh-oh..

[Gnu-arch-users] Re: State of the Arches

2005-03-24 Thread Martin Pool
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 15:40:55 -0800, Tom Lord wrote: > Speaking of which > > I'm intensely interested in bazaar-ng but my forays into the available > writings about it haven't given me a really comfortable grip on what the > vision is there. Bits and pieces of ideas sound good but I didn't ge

[Gnu-arch-users] Re: Arch vs. Darcs/BitKeeper: WC & Respo vs. WC == Repo?

2005-03-22 Thread Martin Pool
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 11:21:19 -0500, Deliverable Mail wrote: > Now, if I use a laptop and simply want two full repos with all > histories on both and sync them when I get a chance to, e.g. if I work > on a big screen at home and on my laptop in a cafe, -- why do I need > the second layer? What is