Re: Windows-specific questions about Bazaar

[Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> If someone has experience in using Bazaar on MS-Windows, could you
> please answer the following questions:
>
>  . The Reference Guide says: "On Windows auto-detection of Putty's
>   plink.exe is disabled. Default SSH client for Windows is
>   paramiko. User still can force usage of plink if explicitly set
>   environment variable BZR_SSH=plink."  Any advice whether to stick
>   to the default or force usage of plink?  (One obvious, but minor
>   disadvantage of not using plink is that you will have two places
>   where each public key and machine signatures are saved.)


I do not know much about this but I am using bzr under Windows to
reach Launchpad.

I actually use pageant.exe that came with plink and putty to login to
Launchpad for bzr. However I am obviously not using plink. Or I do not
believe so. BZR_SSH is not set and plink is not in PATH.

However it works.


>  . CVS was notorious for problems when the time zone switches from
>   Standard Time to DST and back, even though modern Windows systems
>   and NTFS store times and file time stamps in UTC.  Typically,
>   unless you did something special, the first "cvs up" after the
>   switch would send the entire sandbox upstream.  (I even wrote a
>   program that moved all time stamps an hour forward or back to avoid
>   that.)  Does Bazaar cope correctly with this, assuming the
>   time-zone information is set correctly in the Registry?
>
>  . Does Bazaar honor $HOME on Windows, or is $BZR_HOME the only
>   variable it looks at, before falling back on the default location?
>
> TIA