Re: Switching to bzr: what remains to be done?

[Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>]

On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:00:00 +0100, Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> wrote:
> Karl Fogel <karl.fogel@canonical.com> writes:
>
> Hi Karl,
>
>> Progress report on the 4 bugs we've highlighted as blockers:
>>
>>    1) 'bzr log' only takes a single file argument
>>        (https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/211852)
>>
>>        Developer vila has commented in the bug, but there is no
>>        timeline to fix it.  I'm asking vila whether he plans to.
>>
>>    2) 'bzr log SUBDIR' doesn't show all changes under SUBDIR
>>        (https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/97715)
>>
>>        Developer abentley has commented that this is hard (at least,
>>        that's how I interpret "This isn't really practical without
>>        changes to the inventory format.")  Is this one definitely a
>>        blocker for us, or just a nice-to-have?
>
> I don't have any bzr repository checked out currently, so I couldn't
> test my assertion.  But reading the docs of bzr-1.10 it seems to me that
> `bzr diff' only accepts files as arguments (no directories), too.
>
> Maybe that could make syncing parts that also have an external
> repository difficult.  One candidate suffering from that could be
> org-mode, which resides at lisp/org/.

It may affect `vc-dir' too.  I am using `C-x v d' to check parts of the
workspace with Mercurial branches, but I haven't tried it with bzr branches.