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Bazaar on the slow track

Bazaar on the slow track

Posted Sep 12, 2012 8:11 UTC (Wed) by afayolle (subscriber, #45179)
Parent article: Bazaar on the slow track

A non-obvious drawback of bzr when compared to git or hg is... the command name itself, when typed on most keyboards. In that area, hg only looses it to a yet to be invented VCS tool that would be called jf :-) and bzr is terrible when you get to type that command over and over again.

I'm forced to use bzr because the projects I work on are collectively hosted on launchpad, and I have 'alias b=bzr' in my .bashrc to alleviate this.


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Bazaar on the slow track

Posted Sep 12, 2012 18:06 UTC (Wed) by apoelstra (subscriber, #75205) [Link]

>A non-obvious drawback of bzr when compared to git or hg is... the command name itself, when typed on most keyboards.

I never noticed this until your comment, but it is interesting to note that typing 'bzr' on dvorak is almost exactly the same movement as on qwerty -- except you use your right hand instead of your left!

(The specific keys, to a qwerty user, are 'n/o'.)

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