I recently came across a useful flag that can be use with Bazaar's move command. --after can be used to update bazaar's internal reference to the file after you've already moved the file. The syntax is as follows: $ mv foo bar # Doh should have used bzr mv $ bzr mv --after…
Great news that MySQL has migrated it's source code from BitKeeper over to Bazaar. Interestingly the featureset and openness are cited as the main reasons for the switch to bazaar over several alternatives (which weren't listed). In addition to the move to bazaar, Mysql are also using launchpad as their…
Fantastic news that Bazaar has reached version 1.0. This is thanks to a lot of hard work by some very talented people and I'm pleased to note that it looks like case sensitivity issues have been addressed. Amongst the changes are improved documentation. Docs are something that are often…
This probably won't make too much sense without the notes but here's the slides for the presentation I gave with Andrew Phillippo at Yahoo! Europe's front-end engineering conference. When I have a few spare moments I'll write a post covering the details of the presentation. To view the deck in…
There's an issue with Bazaar caused by case-insensitive file systems (technically case preserving). When you add a file/directory called "foo" when "Foo" is already versioned, Bazaar will do exactly as it's told and while start to version Foo. Now the problems start because to a…
Launchpad.net is a site for hosting software projects and in a lot of ways it is similar to google code and sourceforge.net. Launchpad allows you to plan and manage bug tracking for your project, as well as manage delivery of translations. However, the ace up launchpad's sleeve is…
Here's the slides from a recent Lightning talk I gave at our London offices on the Bazaar version control system. A full transcript is available here: http://www.slideshare.net/muffinresearch/bazaar-vcs…
This post is a follow-on from a previous post that formed a basic introduction to Bazaar version control. If you'd like to find out more about Bazaar then you can also read about it on the official Bazaar website There will come a time in any project when you will…