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Bazaar: Moving files after the fact

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

MySQL Moves to Bazaar for Source Control

Great news that MySQL [http://www.mysql.com/] has migrated it's source code from BitKeeper over to Bazaar [http://bazaar-vcs.org]. 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

Bazaar 1.0 released

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 [http://mebentley.blogspot.com/2007/12/bazaar-10-not-just-number.html]. Amongst the

Presentation: De-centralised Version Control with Bazaar

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

Case Insensitive File-systems and Bazaar

There's an issue with Bazaar [http://bazaar-vcs.org] caused by case-insensitive file systems (technically case preserving [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case_preservation]). When you add a file/directory called "foo" when "Foo" is already versioned, Bazaar will do exactly as it's

Contributing to projects on Launchpad.net with Bazaar

Launchpad.net [https://launchpad.net/+about] is a site for hosting software projects and in a lot of ways it is similar to google code [http://code.google.com] and sourceforge.net [http://sourceforge.net]. Launchpad allows you to plan and manage bug tracking for your project, as well as

Bazaar Lightning Talk

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

Dealing with Text Conflicts in Bazaar Version Control

This post is a follow-on from a previous post that formed a basic introduction to Bazaar version control [https://muffinresearch.co.uk/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 [http://bazaar-vcs.org] There

Bazaar Version Control

With the development of TweetyPy [https://launchpad.net/tweetypy/] I've moved to using Bazaar [http://bazaar-vcs.org/] for version control. Bazaar is written in Python so it will work as expected cross-platform. Bazaar is different from a typical version control because it doesn't rely on having