[Malvern] Version Control

[Steve Cashmore]

Zeth Green wrote:
> I used to use hg (aka Mercurial) but somehow accidentally moved to
> bzr. I like bzr because the command names are based on Unix commands
> so I don't have to remember anything. There is a graphical tool called
> bzr-gtk

Hi Zeth,

Have you used the Gtk version on Windows? How well does it run? Have you 
tried to import all your old repositories into bzr?
-- 
Steve

> On 13/12/2007, Steve Cashmore <mlug at cashmore.me.uk> wrote:
>> Not sure if I posted this before, if I did then sorry! I've tried a
>> couple of times but haven't seen the post.
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> A little background:
>> For many years I've been using RCS & CVS to keep track of source code
>> and documents from both Linux & Windows machines. Lately however I've
>> often found myself needing to check-in code without server access. That
>> and the fact that my latest notebook came with Vista and many of my
>> project compilers are Windows hosted, and the CSRCS version control
>> software doesn't play well with Vista, have led me to look for alternatives.
>>
>> I need to still be able to check in code when not connected to a
>> central server, synchronising later, so have been looking at Bazaar,
>> Mercury & Monotone. Windows support as well as Linux is essential.
>> These three seem to work OK on Windows, Bazaar keeps the repository in a
>> non readable binary form, while Mercury uses a mainly text format. I'm
>> quite happy to use the command line to check-in/out source but would
>> really like a better historical visualisation & diff tool (point &
>> click) to browse and compare old revisions/branches.
>>
>> So what is the collective wisdom out there, anybody else with the same
>> needs, if so what have you found?