Diff for "Bazaar"

Bazaar is another ["DistributedSCM"] (see http://bazaar-vcs.org/).

A Bazaar "branch" roughly corresponds to a Mercurial [:Repository:repository].

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Comparing Use Cases

Push

Bazaar

In Bazaar, the push command has an --overwrite option which modifies the history of the target branch. Example:

Assume we have a Bazaar branch in directory bzr1 and branched that to bzr1-1 (using bzr branch bzr1 bzr1-1). Then we commit some changes in both branches, thus making the branches diverge.

Then in bzr1-1 we do:

> bzr push ..\bzr1
bzr: ERROR: These branches have diverged.  Try using "merge" and then "push".

will fail because the two branches have diverged.

But specifying --overwrite will succeed:

> bzr push ..\bzr1 --overwrite
All changes applied successfully.
Pushed up to revision 2.

by changeing the history of bzr1. Some already committed changes to branch bzr1 are deleted (the diverging changes).

Mercurial

In Mercurial, it is not possible to delete already committed changesets when doing a [:Push:push].

Assume we have two Mercurial repositories hg1 and hg1-1 (hg1-1 cloned at some time from hg1) with diverging changes. In hg1-1 doing:

> hg push ..\hg1
pushing to ..\hg1
searching for changes
abort: push creates new remote branches!
(did you forget to merge? use push -f to force)

will fail as with bzr push. But doing:

> hg push --force ..\hg1
pushing to ..\hg1
searching for changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 1 changesets with 1 changes to 1 files (+1 heads)

in Mercurial will simply add a new [:Head:head] to the target repository. History is preserved.

General Comparison

• ["BzrVsHg"]

• [http://www.selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial-devel/2008-January/004361.html bzr wins a performance test], by Bryan O'Sullivan, Fri Jan 18 15:33:47 CST 2008

References

• [http://doc.bazaar-vcs.org/bzr.dev/en/user-reference/bzr_man.html Bazaar User Reference] (manual)