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Video: A first look at Bazaar
Hi there. So Luis came to our office in Bologna for a couple of days, which was great.
We took the opportunity to take a look at Bazaar, the source-control system used by Ubuntu, mySQL, GNome.
Luis likes it more than Git, and we've been using SVN all this time, which I hear is "the old way" of working.
Anyways, we thought we'd record the session to share it with you...who knows, it may be useful if you're like me and still don't "get" these new ways of sharing your code...
Warning: the video is unedited and 48 minutes long.
In the end, I wasn't totally convinced but I'm willing to give it a try. We'll port our myBalsamiq code-base to Bazaar after our next beta refresh release and see how it feels.
What do you think? Will we ever go back to SVN?
Peldi
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Comments (7)
I know I’m excited about the wrong thing here, but what’d you use to record your video w/ desktop at the same time?
[Peldi: Screenflow of course! http://www.telestream.net/screen-flow/overview.htm ]
We use SVN and GIT. Git’s cool, but I’ll admit that we’re probably just using it in a SVN+1 fashion.
Anyone know of some really great GIT tutorials or “Why GIT is so much better than SVN?”
Mar 05, 2010
Mercurial is about the same concept as Git and Bzr, and Joel Spolsky recently posted a great intro to Mercurial and “why it is better than SVN”: http://hginit.com/ a lot of concepts there apply also to Git and Bzr.
Mar 08, 2010
I just spent 3 days researching a better source control solution than Visual Source safe. I tried TortoiseSVN, Bazaar, and Mercurial. I never have heard of distributed source control systems before until 3 days ago. After 3 days I concluded that it must work great for open source but for corporate use I just don’t see the benefit. I have several projects that i work on for clients and an occasional developer helps me with the code. I plan on adding more developers. The distributed versions are complex to understand and confusing to use with poor documentation. (At least the free ones.) It would take me a week to really understand it. Now try explaining how to use those system to new developers I hire. It would be too easy to make mistakes. Even TotoiseSVN took me several hours to feel comfortable with. I also want to keep a handle on what each developer is doing and want the ability to do code reviews often. Distributed systems add an extra layer of flexiblity but with that comes complexity. Needless to say I decided to go with ToroiseSVN. I’m glad you put the Bizaar video up. I wanted to really like it but it was really confusing.
Apr 16, 2010
Could you please put the video back up?
Andrew
Nov 27, 2010
I am currently torn between Bazaar and Git to look after the source of my latest web app. Either way I would like to keep it in house until I add developers to the project.
Nov 27, 2010
Hi Andrew, sorry about that, video is back up now.
Dec 07, 2010
Having been always disappointed by the “merge thing” in SVN, I’m currently quite in love with Git.
I think Bazaar is great, too.
Apr 09, 2011