Re: [wxlua-users] bzr branch of wxLua on Launchpad

On Jan 17, 2008 5:56 PM, Rob Kendrick <rj...@rj...> wrote:

> Bazaar is a distributed version control system.  You can branch
> remotely-stored branches that you don't have write-access to, work on
> your local branch, push your changes else where or back to the original
> author, etc.  It can fetch from a simple HTTP server (no modules or
> webdav needed) and push back to anything it can use to write files (alas
> not HTTP PUT, however.)  I use sftp, which is built atop of SSH.  The
> way Launchpad works is it only reads from CVS: it doesn't write to it.
>
> It also does not require you to be connected to the internet to make
> changes: you can commit to your local branch.  When you push to another
> branch (such as one stored on a server) you get the opportunity to
> merge.
>
> Bazaar can directly branch from Subversion too (but not CVS, alas), so
> if you wanted to do some disconnected work, you could do this:
>        bzr branch svn://foo/bar
>        <disconnect from internet>
>        <edit some files>
>        bzr commit -m "message"
>        <edit some more>
>        bzr commit -m "message"
>        <connect to internet>
>        bzr push svn://foo/bar
>
> http://doc.bazaar-vcs.org/bzr-0.9/tutorial.html has an excellent
> tutorial that pretty much shows everything you'd need to know.
>

Does LaunchPad update from CVS all the time? Is it done nightly or every **
minutes? Can anybody "push" to LaunchPad? Do you recommend any particular
GUI for Windows? I already have stuff setup for Ubuntu ;-).
-- 
Regards,
Ryan