Questions tagged [bazaar]

Bazaar is a free distributed version control system (DVCS).

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The right way to convert from bazaar to git and sync them

I have a development repository in bazaar and I want to convert it to git and keep it synced. I need this because I will be sharing my code with someone who doesn't know bazaar. first I needed to convert my bazaar repo to git. I googled around and…
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How can I have two "streams of development" (branches?) track each other while remaining different in particular ways?

BRIEF: I want to have two (or more) "streams of development" / environments track each other, sending changes between each other in both directions, without converging totally - while preserving certain key, essential, differences? DETAIL, ONE…
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How to undo bzr add

Sometimes I type bzr add and don't notice that I am not in the root of the branch but an ignored sub-folder. This then adds all files in that folders - often it is a build folder, with lots of files. Hence the question: how to undo a bzr add.
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What's the point of tags in bazaar?

I started using bazaar after a long camping in the svn field. I had previous experience with cvs as well, and I used tags occasionally. With svn, once you release a version, you perform a svn copy of your trunk into tags, for example svn copy trunk…
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Understandability of git, mercurial, bazaar source code bases

I'd like to read the source code of one of the popular revision control tools to learn how revision control works. I'd like to read the one that is most readable. I don't know of an objective, quantitative measure of this, so in the spirit of the…
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Can you help me start with version control systems?

i'm new to the idea of VCSs and i was wondering if people here could help me have a better start at it. so far ive read about SVN and bazaar, tried tortoiseSVN with collabnet subversion edge, (just at home, used my pc as the server and laptop as the…
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How can I get a commit message from a bzr post-commit hook?

I'm trying to write a bzr post-commit hook for my private bugtracker, but I'm stuck at the function signature of post_commit(local, master, old_revno, old_revid, new_revno, mew_revid) How can I extract the commit message for the branch from this…
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Bazaar: Ignoring files locally but not in centralized repository?

We have a centralized development server, with everyone working from local checkouts. How can we ignore a specific directory only in our local repositories and not in the centralized repository? Some background information: The project is a Drupal…
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bzr init-repo and multiple projects

I'm having difficulties understanding bzr init-repo. I have 3 projects that I want to have in their own isolated repository, in subversion I would use svnadmin create three times to create them. Like this: svnadmin create MyProject svnadmin create…
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Bazaar (bzr) predefined locations

Bazaar has a Launchpad pseudo-protocol (lp:) that able the user to operate in remote branchs without write full Launchpad location, I'm searching a way to create my own pseudo-protocols in a way like this (similar to GIT): bzr remote my…
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Bzr fast-export return bzr: broken pipe

I need to export my bzr repo to git. To do this i'm trying to use bzr fast-export --git-branch=mybranch --plain | git fast-import --force. The bzr starts to run but stops and return an error: 15:11:58 Calculating the revisions to include ...…
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How can a heavyweight checkout be changed to a lightweight checkout in Bazaar?

I have a shared repository like so: repo/ mainline featureA featureB I like to do all my development in one place, so I do something like > cd /Development/workingArea > bzr checkout featureA ... > bzr commit -m "Worked on featureA" > bzr…
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How many people were involved in a project? Based on Revision Control System

How do you know how many developers were involved in a project using a Revision Control System? A friend of mine found this way to look up the answer in git log: git log | grep Author: | sort -u | cut –delimiter=” ” -f2 | sort -u | wc -l Is…
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How to add remote repository URL in Bazzar?

I am a git user but now I need to work on a project that is hosted on launchpad. I noticed that git and bzr are similar but apparently have some confusing differences. In git when you clone a remote repo the local copy is automatically hooked to the…
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bazaar checkout error

I am in folder where I have rwx rights and I tried this bzr branch bzr+ssh://bazaar.launchpad.net/%2Bbranch/openobject-addons/7.0/ I gave 'yes' when they asked to store public key But the following error message occured `Permission denied…
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