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 used bzr mv $ bzr mv --after…

MySQL Moves to Bazaar for Source Control

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…

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. Amongst the changes are improved documentation. Docs are something that are often…

Case Insensitive File-systems and Bazaar

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…

Contributing to projects on Launchpad.net with Bazaar

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…

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. 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…