Re: On a free repacker

[mjt@nysv.org]

On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 10:41:20PM +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
>
># bk clone bk://some.url/of/the/project
>and you have a directory "project"
># cd project
># ./configure; make; make install
>for updates:
># cd project
># bk pull
>some projects may have a default of source not checked out, do it now
># bk -r get

I think this script is pretty much fubar :)
Oh, and mjt.nysv.org is down, don't even try to download this or anything
else, it will fail.[1]

>Can it get simpler than this? I'm truly interested in anything that makes
>my life simpler.

Lots of switches which affect what is transferred. That may be versatility
but I think it's useless. SVN is just svn update and there you have it.

That is achieved with clone, pull and -r get in BK.
How does BK do diffs? SVN is svn diff -r145:146 and it's there.

SVN's bigger problem seems to be that files are actually copied when
they're tagged. I love that, but I could see it flooding the hard drive.
Apparently they're just tagged in the server-side database, but it's
transparent copying.

That's a fair trade-off for anything CVS can throw at me ;)

I have to admit, though, that I lack experience in BK, and may find the
options, switches and knobs simpler if I got into it. But I don't see
the need...

[1]
Damn how much I hate computers sometimes. Like I wouldn't have more pressing
matters than some broken python cgi...

-- 
mjt