Jonathan Oxer
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>> Move to BZR coming along well
Fri, Oct 17th 9:38am 2008 >> Linux
Much of my difficulty with switching from svn to bzr has been my own mental blockage, but thanks to the helpful folks on #bzr I'm getting past that now. Little nuggets of wisdom like spiv's suggestion to "think of it as 'pushing to the branch' rather than to the repo. Having a repo shared between multiple branches is essentially just an optimisation detail that doesn't affect behaviour" have been enough to rebase my mental processes and get things working well. Yesterday we had a dev team meeting to bring everyone up to speed on the conversion, and BZR-day is tonight: the SVN repos will go offline after 5pm, the trees will be moved over to BZR, and come Monday morning everyone will be doing "bzr ci" instead of "svn ci". Happy days! Not that SVN has been bad. On the contrary, it's served us extremely well over the years. It's just about time we moved on and started taking advantage of some of the mega coolness of a distributed revision control system.
Much of my difficulty with switching from svn to bzr has been my own mental blockage, but thanks to the helpful folks on #bzr I'm getting past that now. Little nuggets of wisdom like spiv's suggestion to "think of it as 'pushing to the branch' rather than to the repo. Having a repo shared between multiple branches is essentially just an optimisation detail that doesn't affect behaviour" have been enough to rebase my mental processes and get things working well. Yesterday we had a dev team meeting to bring everyone up to speed on the conversion, and BZR-day is tonight: the SVN repos will go offline after 5pm, the trees will be moved over to BZR, and come Monday morning everyone will be doing "bzr ci" instead of "svn ci". Happy days! Not that SVN has been bad. On the contrary, it's served us extremely well over the years. It's just about time we moved on and started taking advantage of some of the mega coolness of a distributed revision control system.
>> BZR breaking my mind
Fri, Oct 10th 9:56am 2008 >> Linux
BZR looks awesome. I just can't get my head around it. We've been using Subversion at IVT for years, and after so many thousands of commits my brain is so hard-wired into the SVN way of doing things that I just can't get it around the concepts of the BZR way. I desperately want to switch the dev team over to a distributed / patch-based revision control system to overcome some of the limitations of the SVN model, but it's proving harder than I thought. I've read all the "BZR for SVN users" tutorials, gone through all the repo structure guides, read every relevant blog post I can find, and I still can't get it working properly. I think I need an experienced BZR user sitting next to me to slap me upside the head every few minutes and tell me when I'm doing it wrong.
BZR looks awesome. I just can't get my head around it. We've been using Subversion at IVT for years, and after so many thousands of commits my brain is so hard-wired into the SVN way of doing things that I just can't get it around the concepts of the BZR way. I desperately want to switch the dev team over to a distributed / patch-based revision control system to overcome some of the limitations of the SVN model, but it's proving harder than I thought. I've read all the "BZR for SVN users" tutorials, gone through all the repo structure guides, read every relevant blog post I can find, and I still can't get it working properly. I think I need an experienced BZR user sitting next to me to slap me upside the head every few minutes and tell me when I'm doing it wrong.
>> Reunited with my clothes
Fri, Oct 3rd 7:31am 2008 >> Misc
By the time we wrapped at the final location in Tasmania on the weekend there was barely time for me to get to the airport to make my flight home, so I went straight there and didn't go via the hotel to grab my suitcase.
The end result was that I arrived home without suit pants, black shoes, razor, and various other things I needed for Monday morning so I turned up at work looking rather casual. Luckily one of the Directors happens to be a Melbourne boy and was coming back the next day, so my clothes and I are now in the same state again.
By the time we wrapped at the final location in Tasmania on the weekend there was barely time for me to get to the airport to make my flight home, so I went straight there and didn't go via the hotel to grab my suitcase.
The end result was that I arrived home without suit pants, black shoes, razor, and various other things I needed for Monday morning so I turned up at work looking rather casual. Luckily one of the Directors happens to be a Melbourne boy and was coming back the next day, so my clothes and I are now in the same state again.
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