The Third Bit

It’s interesting that ~1/3 of those polled used DVCSes for working with 0-1 other people.

My number one reason for using DVCSes is that they’re simpler to start. Since you don’t have to point everything at a central repository, it’s really trivial to version a directory.

mkdir newproject
cd newproject
vim __init__.py
bzr init .
bzr add .
bzr commit . -m “Rough Draft.”

My second reason? Local commits. I’ve got code checked out on my server, workstation, and laptop. I use a centralized workflow to keep them all in sync, but if I’m away from network connectivity I can still hack on what I’ve got on my laptop and commit each bugfix/feature as I complete it. Why should those features go away when the network does?

By Cody C. on Jul 6, 2008

Since that article was posted, Bazaar was adopted by MySQL: http://blogs.mysql.com/kaj/2008/06/19/version-control-thanks-bitkeeper-welcome-bazaar/

By Dmitri on Jul 8, 2008