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Bazaar on the slow trackBazaar on the slow trackPosted Sep 12, 2012 13:24 UTC (Wed) by philipstorry (subscriber, #45926)Parent article: Bazaar on the slow track
Off on a tangent here... I wonder how many non-development users Bazaar has?
I'm a systems administrator, and when setting up some Ubuntu Server boxes I chose to version control the /etc path using etckeeper. Funnily enough, Bazaar was Ubuntu's default choice for the VCS that etckeeper used. (etckeeper is apparently agnostic about such things.)
From using Bazaar there, it's kind of snowballed. The one bit of development I do (which isn't much) now uses Bazaar, but only behind the scenes - not as a DVCS. I just picked it because I was familiar with it.
I also use it to version control my writing (mostly short stories, some novels). That can be fairly handy when you get frustrated and delete an entire passage out of frustration, only to find two days later that the problem was elsewhere!
It's quick, simple, and with Bazaar Explorer it's pretty simple even for a novice to use. It may not be the developer's first choice, but should version control really only be used by developers?
Apple have added versioning into their file handling APIs. If Canonical did the same, then I suspect they'd pick Bazaar. At this point I'm just thinking off the top of my head, mind you. But then, none of the other DVCSes are sponsored by a company that's trying to improve the computing experience.
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Bazaar on the slow track Posted Sep 13, 2012 16:26 UTC (Thu) by joey (subscriber, #328) [Link]
It's possible that your distribution has chosen to modify etckeeper so
its default VCS is not git -- if they have please complain to them, as they're making things unnecessarily difficult for you, and causing unnecessary divergence of etckeeper installations. You should only be using etckeeper with a VCS other than git if you're in love with the other VCS.
-- From its README.
Bazaar on the slow track Posted Sep 14, 2012 12:20 UTC (Fri) by philipstorry (subscriber, #45926) [Link]
Cor. I never knew that.
I'd thought it was somewhat agnostic about which VCS it used. I doubt I'll switch now - a quick google shows it is possible to convert, but it's more hassle than I can be bothered with.
It's working fine with bzr, and it's Friday. So to change it breaks the two golden rules:
Thanks for pointing that out though - it's good to know I may need to do it in the future, if bzr support ever wanes for the etckeeper project...
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