From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Git to Bzr - what works? Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 18:23:40 +0300 Message-ID: <838vdevp1f.fsf@gnu.org> References: <5029AB54.8020804@dancol.org> <83fw7pjqav.fsf@gnu.org> <83obmcuk3k.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1345130638 26015 80.91.229.3 (16 Aug 2012 15:23:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 15:23:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: John Wiegley Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 16 17:23:57 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1T21vQ-0002wH-K8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:23:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51113 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T21vP-0000FH-Hq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Aug 2012 11:23:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:60053) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T21vM-0000F9-VT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Aug 2012 11:23:53 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T21vK-0001o1-A1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Aug 2012 11:23:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:51672) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T21vK-0001nx-1q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Aug 2012 11:23:50 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0M8U00100TBROX00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Aug 2012 18:23:31 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0M8U000C1TF7QXI0@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Thu, 16 Aug 2012 18:23:31 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:152589 > From: John Wiegley > Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 22:18:46 -0500 > > It's an inertia thing, really. I could find a solution to my problem, I'm > just not motivated to. In fact, I'm anti-motivated each time I try to touch > Bzr, and it's *just* weird enough from a Git standpoint to cause me problems. > > Like when I commit, and the commit goes straight to remote (wait! I wanted to > push that with other commits!). Or I set the up indirection, and find later > that my push pushed to a local directory instead of remote (what? you didn't > get my change? I just pushed it!). Etc. I think you will be much better off using Oscar's advice: using a non-bound bzr branch where you can commit locally at will and push upstream only when you decide to do so. That should allow you a workflow that is largely mechanic and does not require to rewire your brain for bzr.