[ILUG] source control systems

[Colin Rooney]

I said:
> I have not had enough experience to give the "thumbs up" yet

Actually one thing to add; I am concerned about the speed of bazaar. But so
far I have only uploaded the initial import of about 280MB to launchpad  and
it was so slow I had thought it was caught in an endless loop initially ...
it was only when I tried to debug it I realised it was working, just very
slowly (Alas, I didn't time it but it was hours ... went to bed and came
back to find it completed).  Now 280MB is a big commit, my connection is
restricted to a midband (3g) connection and I have no idea re the launchpad
load ... but it is something to consider and test.

Colin

2009/5/8 Colin Rooney <colin.rooney at gmail.com>

> No GIT experience, but have been experimenting with Bazaar which is the
> default SCS on the new open source repository launchpad.net.  To be honest
> I hadn't heard of it until I looked at putting a project on launchpad.
>
>
> Anyway, it's still early days so I wouldn't like to offer support yet but
> I'm guessing if Canonical are using it it must be decent enough.  I did find
> this GIT/Bazaar comparison that I thought was very interesting ... and fair
> to GIT.
> http://bazaar-vcs.org/BzrVsGit
>
> http://bazaar-vcs.org/BzrWhy has more other links to comparisons.
>
> The user guide gives a good overview
> http://doc.bazaar-vcs.org/latest/en/user-guide/index.html
>
> In particular the use of the gatekeeper approach (whether that be a person
> of what they call a PQM) is interesting
> http://doc.bazaar-vcs.org/latest/en/user-guide/index.html#using-gatekeepers
>
> There is a Bazaar plugin for eclipse which was a little tricky to install -
> but by no means impossible.  There are also standalone tools - Olive is the
> one I have... I think it was in the Ubuntu repository.
>
> As I say - I have not had enough experience to give the "thumbs up" yet but
> it seems to work well and I think it is something worth considering.  I only
> mention it because I wasn't aware of it myself until recently so perhaps it
> is not as well known!?
>
> Colin
>
> 2009/5/8 Dave Rearden <dave.rearden at openjawtech.com>
>
> hi all,
>>
>> we currently use CVS here, but we're increasingly facing problems with
>> large checkouts timing-out over VPNs. our main office is in dublin, with
>> secondary offices in galway and madrid.
>>
>> we'd ideally like to have 3 synchronized repositories, one in each
>> location, that take care of their own replication.
>>
>> i understand GIT is capable of such magic, has anyone ever set this up?
>>
>> i'm also aware of SVK, but it doesn't suit our needs as people will need
>> to check in at all 3 repoisoties, not just the "master".
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> dave.
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