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Interesting, I've not ever seen a recommendation for bazaar over git or mercurial. I have heard that mercurial's CLI is a bit more sane than git, and I've also
by barbs 12y ago
Interesting, I've not ever seen a recommendation for bazaar over git or mercurial. I have heard that mercurial's CLI is a bit more sane than git, and I've also read that it's easier to extend in Python. How would you compare bazaar to mercurial?
I've actually only ever used git for professional and personal development, but I think I'll want to play around with both mercurial and bazaar now. Git's CLI is definitely a bit of a PITA.
I find this video summarises git's frustrations pretty well :) https://vimeo.com/60788996 https://vimeo.com/60788996.
- chx 12y agoI will be ready to admit I haven't used mercurial much. But ... how does mercurial help the "small" use case?
- ngoldbaum 12y agoBazaar is basically unmaintained at this point. If you look on Launchpad, the trunk branch hasn't seen a commit since December 2014 [0]. There hasn't been a release since August 2013 [1]. Mercurial is very actively developed, with dozens of patches a month [2]. They also keep to a planned rolling release cycle [3] along with deep commitments about backward and forward compatibility [4]. New features like the experimental evolve extension [5] are also really cool. I use it for day-to-day work and find it incredibly useful for editing work-in-progress commits into nice self-contained patches. [0] https://code.launchpad.net/bzr/trunk https://code.launchpad.net/bzr/trunk [1] https://launchpad.net/bzr/ https://launchpad.net/bzr/ [2] http://selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial-devel/2015-March/thread.html http://selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial-devel/2015-March/thre... [3] http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/WhatsNew http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/WhatsNew [4] http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/CompatibilityRules http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/CompatibilityRules [5] http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/ChangesetEvolution http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/ChangesetEvolution
- chx 12y agoYes. git won, bzr is dead. As I said: I am aware and I switched to git because everyone else did. Just don't expect me to be happy about it.