- Bazaar Version Control
- Table of Contents
- Bazaar Version Control
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Getting Started
- 2. Diving into Bazaar
- Understanding the core concepts
- Introducing the user interfaces
- Configuring Bazaar
- Performing the basic version control operations
- Putting a directory under version control
- Checking the status of files and directories
- Adding files to version control
- Recording a new revision
- Ignoring files
- Deleting files
- Undoing changes
- Editing files
- Viewing differences in changed files
- Renaming or moving files
- Viewing the revision history
- Restoring files from a past revision
- Putting it all together
- Beyond the basics
- Summary
- 3. Using Branches
- What is a branch?
- What can you do with branches?
- Why use more than one branch?
- Understanding core terms and concepts
- Using a shared repository
- Basic branching and merging
- Using the branch command
- Viewing basic branch information
- Comparing branches
- Merging branches
- Mirroring branches
- Summary
- 4. Using Bazaar in a Small Team
- Collaborating with others
- Sharing branches over the network
- Working with remote branches
- Implementing simple workflows
- Summary
- 5. Working with Bazaar in Centralized Mode
- 6. Working with Bazaar in Distributed Mode
- The distributed mode in general
- The human gatekeeper workflow
- The automatic gatekeeper workflow
- The shared mainline workflow
- Choosing a distributed workflow
- Summary
- 7. Integrating Bazaar in CDE
- What is a CDE?
- Working with Launchpad
- Integrating Bazaar into Redmine
- Integrating Bazaar into Trac
- Linking commits to bug trackers
- Web-based repository browsing with Loggerhead
- Summary
- 8. Using the Advanced Features of Bazaar
- 9. Using Bazaar Together with Other VCS
- Working with other VCS in general
- Using Bazaar with Subversion
- Installing bzr-svn
- Supported protocols and URL schemes
- Using the example Subversion repository
- Understanding branches in Subversion
- Branching or checkout from Subversion
- Preserving Subversion metadata
- Pulling or updating from Subversion
- Committing to Subversion
- Pushing to Subversion
- Merging Subversion branches
- Merging local branches into Subversion
- Binding and unbinding to Subversion locations
- Using lightweight checkouts
- Browsing the logs
- Limitations of bzr-svn
- Final remarks on bzr-svn
- Using Bazaar with Git
- Migrating between version control systems
- Summary
- 10. Programming Bazaar
- Using Bazaar programmatically
- Creating a plugin
- Using the example plugins
- Naming the plugin
- Creating the plugin directory
- Implementing the plugin
- Writing the README file
- Creating __init__.py
- Writing unit tests
- Creating setup.py
- Browsing existing plugins
- Registering your plugin
- Creating a hook
- References
- Summary
- Index
A version control system is but one of the many components in the set of necessary tools required to collaborate with others on a project. This chapter explains how to integrate Bazaar with various collaborative development environments.
The following topics will be covered in this chapter:
- What is a CDE?
- Working with Launchpad
- Integrating Bazaar with Redmine
- Integrating Bazaar with Trac
- Linking commits to bug trackers
- Web-based repository browsing with Loggerhead
A Collaborative Development Environment (CDE) is a collection of online collaboration tools used to manage the various aspects in the development of a project. You can expect the following features from a CDE:
- Version control system hosting with web-based repository browsing
- Bug/issue tracking system
- Task management system/to-do list
- Document management system
- Translation management system
- Wiki
- Mailing list
- Forum or bulletin board system for discussions
The essential elements depend upon the project and its collaborators involved. You might not need some of these features, or you might need all of them and more. Often, there is no single system covering all of these functionalities; a CDE may be composed of independent tools that can work well with each other.
Before deciding to use Bazaar in an existing infrastructure, it is an important question to ask whether it can or not integrate well and work together with the existing tools in the given environment. In this chapter, we will take a look at how Bazaar can be used with various CDE tools that implement at least some of the preceding functionalities, such as the following:
- Launchpad: This provides Bazaar hosting and web-based repository browsing, bug tracking, task management, translation management, and mailing lists
- Redmine: This provides web-based VCS browsing, bug tracking, task management, document management, and wiki
- Trac: This provides web-based VCS browsing, bug tracking, task management, document management, and wiki
- Loggerhead: This provides web-based Bazaar repository browsing
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