Andreas Ericsson <ae@xxxxxx> writes: > What about > > 3) getting the repo with all the history while still not having to be > online to actually commit to *your* copy of the repo. When you later > get online, you can send all your changes in a big hunk, or let bazaar > email them to the maintainer as patches, or... Well, the discussion was about checkouts, so I was talking about checkouts ;-). What you mention is the default behavior of Bazaar when you use "bzr branch" or "bzr get". BTW, it's also possible to do this with a heavy checkout, that's "commit --local". > It appears we have different ideas of what's handy. Perhaps it's just > a difference in workflow, or lack of "email-commits-as-patches" tools > in bazaar, You have "bzr bundle" in Bazaar, and there was work to have it actually send the email ( http://bazaar-vcs.org/SubmitByMail ), but I don't think it's finished yet. And yes, this is a great feature, the first time I used it was with Darcs, and I was impressed how easy I could submit a patch without any setup and with a 5-lines tutorial. Even wiki seems complex after that ;-). > but the ability to commit to whatever branch I like in my local repo > and then just send the diffs by email or please-pull requests to > upstream authors is what makes git work so well for me. Sure. Once again, Bazaar does it this way too. There's an _additional feature_ called checkout which allows you to work in another way, though. As most "feature", it's not useful to everybody. And I repeat that I'm in no way arguing against the git model :-). > Side-note 2: Three really great things that have made work a lot > easier and more enjoyable since we changed from cvs to git and that > aren't mentioned in the comparison table: Sure. And regarding this, hopufully, most modern VCS go in the same direction. > * Dependency/history graph display tools á la qgit/gitk http://bazaar-vcs.org/bzr-gtk http://samba.org/~jelmer/bzr/bzrk.png > * Bisection tool for finding bug introduction revisions. This took time to come in bzr, but that's the bisect plugin: http://bazaar-vcs.org/PluginRegistry > * Tools for sending commits as emails. (Surprisingly, I had added this in the table, but has been removed for some obscure reasons) -- Matthieu - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
