http://briancarper.net/tag/184/bazaarSome guy's blog about programming and Linux and cows.http://briancarper.net/blog/oopshttp://briancarper.net/blog/oopsFri, 18 Jan 2008 02:56:00 -0800<p>Tried "shortening" my Lisp code using macros today. Ended up with a god-awful mess. Lesson hopefully learned. <code>bzr revert --no-backup</code> to the rescue. : (</p> <p>The <a href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html">SICP</a> guys say "<em>Use wishful thinking. Write code and use functions that you haven't written yet, that you WISH existed. Then go make those helper functions exist later.</em>" I can't seem to bring myself to write code that way. I'm always thinking in the back of my mind about the low-level details. I can't seem to break my thinking or my design into clean, separated layers. This is one of my biggest problems.</p>http://briancarper.net/blog/bazaarhttp://briancarper.net/blog/bazaarMon, 25 Jun 2007 12:24:12 -0700<p>I started using <a href="http://bazaar-vcs.org/">Bazaar</a> at work recently for source control. Before that, I was using company-mandated <a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa700900.aspx">Visual Source Safe</a>. By "using" I mean "not using", in that not using a source control system of any sort is preferable to using VSS. A more broken program than VSS, I have never seen.</p> <p>Bazaar has the benefit of not having to run any kind of server or have any central repository at all, which fits well at work because I have no machine I could use for a server and no one is going to buy me one. It also seems to work well in a (sadly) Windows environment. </p> <p>I find that a lot of the commands are more intuitive than something like SVN. A lot of things reduce to filesystem operations and you don't even need a command. Want to remove a file from the Bazaar repository? Just delete it. Want to rename a file? Just rename it. Bazaar figures it all out. </p> <p>Local commits are another outstanding feature. Something sorely missed when I've used subversion. Bazaar encourages branching and merging, which fits really well with the workflow here at work. </p> <p>One thing that really did confuse me is <code>update</code> vs. <code>pull</code> vs. <code>merge</code>. Thankfully it's covered in the <a href="http://bazaar-vcs.org/FAQ#head-73f0b8ea8515a0087ce8705fbaafc55c80a0a30e">FAQ</a> but it's still sometimes not clear when one should be used over another, other than that <code>update</code> should generally be avoided for my purposes.</p>