From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Windows-specific questions about Bazaar
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 20:29:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e01d8a50912011129y56507536ka78ce37c1ec86ccc@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <834ooamrou.fsf@gnu.org>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-01 19:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-01 19:15 Windows-specific questions about Bazaar Eli Zaretskii
2009-12-01 19:29 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2009-12-01 20:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-12-01 22:15 ` Alexander Belchenko
2009-12-02 4:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-12-02 5:02 ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-12-02 5:55 ` Alexander Belchenko
2009-12-01 19:56 ` David Robinow
2009-12-01 20:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-12-01 21:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-12-01 22:16 ` Alexander Belchenko
2009-12-02 4:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
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