Questions tagged [bazaar]

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Remove a change from an ealier bazaar commit

I am working on a feature branch in bazaar. For the purposes of building the project locally, I modified a file locally (build), although I do not want this change to be included in my commits. Most of the time I remember to exclude that file from…
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How to properly remove a bazaar branch?

How to properly remove a bazaar branch from a repository? What if I want to remove a branch completely, so it would be impossible to find if this branch existed? I'm aware of the remove-branch command, but are there any alternatives?
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What's the bzr command to revert

Easy question. I have downloaded gnome-do and I'm starting to learn about it. By mistake I have removed a file and now I want to update it with the latest version. What'st the bzr command to do that? I've tried bzr update but it always says I'm up…
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Have program report bazaar revision number when run

I have a python program under bazaar version control. How can I get the program to display the current branch revision number and date/build-date when run? The program is exported, not executed from a working copy tree. There is a svn version of…
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bazaar bind branches

In my project , i have local branch for working and branch on network drive i did "bind branch" between local one and network one My idea is to use the bind option for auto backup of each local commit. After i commit files in the local branch , i…
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What VCS allows me to add changes to multiple pending commits simultaneously?

My workflow usually involves me making multiple changes to a file, each of which belongs to it's own conceptual unit of change across the project (= commit). What I would like to be able to do is to add certain diffs (either a whole file, or only…
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Mirroring Subversion repository with Bazaar without importing the full history?

I would like to use Bazaar for working with a project that uses Subversion and has a very long history. For example svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/head. There is a good plugin bzr-svn which can be used to work with SVN repositories. There are some…
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Can I take a bazaar branch and make it my main shared repository?

I have a bazaar repository on a shared server. I'd like to clean up the repo and set it up from scratch but maintain my history. I don't know how the repository was created initially (is there a way to find out?). Can I take a branch and make that…
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Recommended workflow for Redmine + bzr?

I have just set up Redmine on my server with a project that has been under bazaar version control. Here is the existing workflow: Each developer (including myself) creates a branch from the development trunk. Developer makes changes and commits to…
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can bazaar ignore a file that already exists in a branch?

On my local machine the configurations are different from the test and production server. Everytime when I want to commit my local code, it notices (Bazaar Explorer) that I edited the config file. Now I'm explicitly ignoring this file with every…
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How would you use a Distributed Version Control System like Mercurial or Bazaar to manage large binary files?

Specifically the situation I'm thinking of is you have a large asset like a .psd that is 200 MB. An artist goes and changes a few pixels and checks it in. Assuming deltas are not kept thats 200 MBs that anyone that updates to his clone/branch will…
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Copying a directory that is version controlled

I am curious whether it is OK to copy a directory that is under version control and start working on both copies. I know it can be different from one VCS to another, but I intentionally don't specify any VCS since I am curious about different…
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Extending a version control system with custom delta algorithm

Which mature version control systems allow overriding algorithms of finding and applying delta? Either through plugin or through exteral tool, does not matter. It must be possible to override internal diff algorithm of a VCS for specific file types.…
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How to export a bazaar branch into a new subversion repository and then pull/push from it

I've been working on a project, using Bazaar as a version control system. Now I have to work with people offshore, and they only want to use SVN. What I have: My bazaar branch with its files and revisions. A brand new subversion repository. What I…
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'bzr update' wiped all my local commits. Help!

I think something bad might have happened to my changesets. For the record, I have used git, hg and svn with general success before. My understanding of bzr is less complete. Here's what I had (Windows XP): 1) A folder created using bzr's svn…
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