Tag Archives: Bazaar

Psycopg migrated to Bazaar

28 April, 2008 – 10:07 pm

Last week we moved psycopg from Subversion to Bazaar.  I did the migration using Gustavo Niemeyer’s svn2bzr tool with a few tweaks to map the old Subversion committer IDs to the email address form conventionally used by Bazaar.
The tool does a good job of following tree copies and create related Bazaar branches.  It doesn’t have […]

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Looms Rock

1 April, 2008 – 4:52 pm

While doing a bit of work on Storm, I decided to try out the loom plugin for Bazaar. The loom plugin is designed to help maintain a stack of changes to a base branch (similar to quilt). Some use cases where this sort of tool are useful include:

Maintaining a long-running diff to a […]

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bzr-dbus hacking

27 March, 2008 – 10:45 pm

When working on my bzr-avahi plugin, Robert asked me about how it should fit in with his bzr-dbus plugin. The two plugins offer complementary features, and could share a fair bit of infrastructure code. Furthermore, by not cooperating, there is a risk that the two plugins could break when both installed together.
Given the […]

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Zeroconf Branch Sharing with Bazaar

19 February, 2008 – 3:36 pm

At Canonical, one of the approaches taken to accelerate development is to hold coding sprints (otherwise known as hackathons, hackfests or similar). Certain things get done a lot quicker face to face compared to mailing lists, IRC or VoIP.
When collaborating with someone at one of these sprints the usual way to let others look […]

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States in Version Control Systems

4 December, 2007 – 5:32 pm

Elijah has been writing an interesting series of articles comparing different version control systems. While the previous articles have been very informative, I think the latest one was a bit muddled. What follows is an expanded version of my comment on that article.
Elijah starts by making an analogy between text editors and version […]

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Signed Revisions with Bazaar

4 October, 2007 – 12:26 am

One useful feature of Bazaar is the ability to cryptographically sign revisions. I was discussing this with Ryan on IRC, and thought I’d write up some of the details as they might be useful to others.
Anyone who remembers the past security of GNOME and Debian servers should be able to understand the benefits of […]

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Bazaar bundles as part of a review process

16 August, 2007 – 1:36 pm

In my previous article, I outlined Bazaar’s bundle feature. This article describes how the Bazaar developers use bundles as part of their development and code review process.
Proposed changes to Bazaar are generally posted as patches or bundles to the development mailing list. Each change is discussed on the mailing list (often going through […]

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Bazaar Bundles

31 July, 2007 – 1:51 pm

This article follows on from the series of tutorials on using Bazaar that I have neglected for a while. This article is about the bundle feature of Bazaar. Bundles are to Bazaar branches what patches are to tarballs or plain source trees.
Context/unified diffs and the patch utility are arguably one of most important […]

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FM Radio in Rhythmbox – The Code

21 May, 2007 – 1:08 pm

Previously, I posted about the FM radio plugin I was working on. I just posted the code to bug 168735. A few notes about the implementation:

The code only supports Video4Linux 2 radio tuners (since that’s the interface my device supports, and the V4L1 compatibility layer doesn’t work for it). It should be […]

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ZeroConf support for Bazaar

25 March, 2007 – 10:05 am

When at conferences and sprints, I often want to see what someone else is working on, or to let other people see what I am working on. Usually we end up pushing up to a shared server and using that as a way to exchange branches. However, this can be quite frustrating when […]

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