Often abbreviated bzr, Bazaar is a distributed version control system (VCS) with a focus on being easy to learn. Its development is sponsored by Canonical, the same company who sponsors the development of Ubuntu. It is tightly integrated with Launchpad and is the VCS of choice for Ubuntu development.
Questions tagged [bazaar]
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Future of Bazaar
The Bazaar DVCS seems to be left far behind Git and Mercurial, at least in terms of adoption and overall mindshare in the VCS space. AFAIK the only high profile projects using bzr are
Ubuntu and Launchpad, both directly backed by Canonical. So I'm…
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Is there a way to see a list of unreachable revisions in Bazaar?
If I do an uncommit, Bazaar gives me a revision id which I can use to retrieve the uncommitted revision, should I ever need it. If I don't write it down right after the uncommit, is there a way to find this revision id again?
Similarly, if I delete…
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How can I get statistics, how line count has changed over time?
How can I get statistics, how line count changed over time? I use bazaar for my project and it would be really nice to know, if I am refactoring code correctly.
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How can I solve the problem that bzr cannot acquire lock?
I executed the following command:
bzr push lp:~orschiro/+junk/audio-recorder
It produces the following error:
bzr: ERROR: Could not acquire lock "(remote lock)": bzr+ssh://bazaar.launchpad.net/~orschiro/%2Bjunk/audio-recorder/
I tried to remove…
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Actual name or pen-name for bzr whoami?
I am setting up bazaar, and need to tell it my identity using whoami command.
Am confused as to whether I should provide my real name, or my online/pen name for the purpose?
charlie
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bzr: change saved location
How can I change the saved location of repository when using bzr ?
When you do: bzr push, it's normally what you can see:
Using saved push location: bzr+ssh://bazaar.launchpad.net/XX
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How to push branchs for different projects?
I'm an Ubuntu translator and I like to translate .po files locally then push them to a branch.
If I'm working on more than one project and I need to push some changes to them after translation, will I need a separate branch for each project?
For…
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How to create a shared repository in dumb server mode in Bazaar?
How can I create a shared repository on a server if I only have access using sftp://?
As a workaround, I could create the shared repository locally and then I could copy it to the server.
In any case, can Bazaar use a remote shared repository in…
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Comparing arbitrary revisions between branches using Bazaar
Given two branches, branchA and branchB, is there a syntax for comparing arbitrary revision X of branchA with Y of branchB?
For example:
cd /path/to/branchA
bzr diff --new /path/to/branchB -rX
This will show the differences between revision X of…
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How to merge a branch in bzr?
I am a participant in the Ubuntu App Showdown contest and I got some feedback https://myapps.developer.ubuntu.com/dev/apps/1183/feedback/ and I want to merge the bzr branch of M. Hall to my main branch.
How I can do this correctly because I don't…
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download latest bzr revision only
Sometimes I want to get a bzr branch (e.g. lp:~elementary-design/+junk/elementarywalls or lp:gimp), but I have a slow Internet connection and only want to download the latest revision. How do I do this, starting with an empty folder (i.e. no…
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Why my git doesn't work with bzr-make?
I want to made deb package for virglrender
in Ubuntu 16.04.
For git i did
git clone git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/virglrenderer
cd virglrenderer/
ls
./autogen.sh
make
make install
Now I want to package
bzr dh-make virglrenderer 102016git…
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How do I use GroundControl in 11.10?
When I installed Bazaar Explorer on a fresh system the other day, I came across this Ground Control. I had a look at its web page on http://ground-control.org/ and it looked seriously awesome, so I installed it from Ubuntus repositories. However, I…
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How edit or correct a Bazaar commit comment?
After executing bzr commit, is there a way to edit the comment associated with the commit?
For example, suppose I used the following Bazaar command:
bzr commit -m "Some comment wit spelng errorz."
Is there a way to correct the comment associated to…
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How to prevent etckeeper from saving cups/subscriptions.conf.0
Anacron sends me this message daily:
/etc/cron.daily/etckeeper:
Committing to: /etc/
modified cups/subscriptions.conf.O
Committed revision 384.
I have added this file to /etc/.bzrignore:
...
# end section managed by…
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