Personal branches in Bazaar repository

Personal branches in Bazaar repository

[Robert Millan]

Now that I have a bit more time, I explain about my own GRUB branches.  They
live in:

  http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/grub/people/robertmh

and consist of a few pieces of unfinished work I used to have scattered around
my filesystem.

If others find it convenient to host their own branches at Savannah, they
may do that with e.g.

  username=foo

  bzr branch sftp://${username}@bzr.savannah.gnu.org/srv/bzr/grub/trunk/
  # hack
  bzr commit
  bzr push --remember sftp://${username}@bzr.savannah.gnu.org/srv/bzr/grub/people/${username}

If they prefer a Subversion-like workflow (i.e. commit implies push), they can
checkout the branch afterwards:

  bzr checkout sftp://${username}@bzr.savannah.gnu.org/srv/bzr/grub/people/${username}

and work basically the same as they would in Subversion.

-- 
Robert Millan

  The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and
  how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we
  still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."

Re: Personal branches in Bazaar repository

[Colin Watson]

On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 03:20:25PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
>   bzr branch sftp://${username}@bzr.savannah.gnu.org/srv/bzr/grub/trunk/
>   # hack
>   bzr commit
>   bzr push --remember sftp://${username}@bzr.savannah.gnu.org/srv/bzr/grub/people/${username}
> 
> If they prefer a Subversion-like workflow (i.e. commit implies push), they can
> checkout the branch afterwards:
> 
>   bzr checkout sftp://${username}@bzr.savannah.gnu.org/srv/bzr/grub/people/${username}
> 
> and work basically the same as they would in Subversion.

Just another detail which may be useful: if you've done the former
(branch, push) and want to convert it into the latter (checkout) without
having to fetch the branch again from scratch, then you can do this:

  bzr bind :push

This converts the local branch into a checkout of the remembered push
location.


I would also generally recommend using bzr+ssh:// rather than sftp://
URLs. sftp:// involves copying all the metadata back and forward for a
number of operations. bzr+ssh:// runs a smart server on the remote
system and interacts with that, which is generally much faster. If you
do this, you'll need to drop /srv/bzr from the URL as well, so:

  bzr branch bzr+ssh://${username}@bzr.sv.gnu.org/grub/trunk


Although I'm not a Bazaar developer myself, I have a lot of experience
with using it, and am happy to offer assistance to any GRUB developers
who may run into problems.

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@ubuntu.com]