Bazaar

Windows GUI - and more

Asked by Mike Kay

Greetings. I am new to Bazaar and new to cvs systems, and am a Windoze user - three strikes, but I'm working on it. I have a Server 2003 setup just for this system. I have sftp working on the machine - and it's time to install and configure Bazaar. I have been reading the manuals and understand the basics, but being a Windoze guy a working GUI would be excellent. I find the instructions for getting any of the plugins working a bit hard to follow. I'm about to install bzr-setup-1.12rc1-2.exe. So the questions are: is this a good version to be using? What GUI should I consider using, and a) is there anything outside of the instructions I should know about installing a plugin, and b) once installed how do you use the plugin, like get it started.

Thank you for your patience. A new coding project is starting up and I have to get this up and running soon.

Thanks.

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Elliot Murphy (statik) said : 		#1

Hi Mike,

Don't worry, it will all work really well :)

That is a good version to be using, the 1.12 final might be available very very soon.

Installing plugins is just a matter of putting them in the right directory, and then you can confirm whether they are loaded or not by running the command 'bzr plugins' and seeing what is listed.

Some plugins make new commands available, others make changes to existing commands. Are there particular plugins that you need to use?

The TortoiseBzr GUI is supposed to be included with the current releases according to this page http://bazaar-vcs.org/TortoiseBzr, but I confess I haven't tried it myself recently.

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Mike Kay (mikekay) said : 		#2

I will give the instll try this afternoon, but the main question remains - once Bazaar is installed, how do you start the gui plugin? Doing a, bzr plugins, will tell me if the plugins are installed properly, but how do you start it? Any help most appreciated.

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Vincent Ladeuil (vila) said : 		#3

Each plugin can define different commands.

Doing 'bzr help <plugin>' should show you what commands are defined.

For example, bzr help gtk outputs:
Graphical support for Bazaar using GTK.

This plugin includes:
gannotate GTK+ annotate.
gbranch GTK+ branching.
gcheckout GTK+ checkout.
gcommit GTK+ commit dialog.
gconflicts GTK+ conflicts.
gdiff Show differences in working tree in a GTK+ Window.
ginit Initialise a new branch.
ginfo GTK+ branch info dialog
gloom GTK+ loom browse dialog
gmerge GTK+ merge dialog
gmissing GTK+ missing revisions dialog.
gpreferences GTK+ preferences dialog.
gpush GTK+ push.
gsend GTK+ send merge directive.
gstatus GTK+ status dialog.
gtags Manage branch tags.
visualise Graphically visualise this branch.

Tortoise bzr should provides additional items in contextual menus and icon overlays in the explorer.

qbzr... doesn't oputput anything interesting when running 'bzr help qbzr' but it comes with a README.txt file that should explain everything you need.

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Mike Kay (mikekay) said : 		#4

Thanks for your responses. I just installed bzr-setup-1.12rc1-2.exe. Again, I can start in the command line fine. When I run the command bzr plugins I get the following as installed:

bzrtools 1.12, launchpad, netrc_credential_store, qbzr 0.9.7 and svn 0.5. That's it. I have searched all the documentation and looked at all the readme files, there does not seem to be one for qbzr. Also, there is a index.html page under the directory tbzr - where none of the links work. For instance - An Introduction to Tortise Bazaar - it doesn't work.

Going ahead and configuring the rest of the system, but it sure would be nice to understand how to actually use the plugins.

Time has passed.........

I now understand the program a lot better - that 5 minute guide is excellent. Still have a lot to learn, but I can create my version contolled directories, commit changes, view logs, and publish using sftp. Had a bit of an issue with this - still need to know how to edit the user who will be called when I type bzr push command. But getting there.

What an interesting program.....

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Vincent Ladeuil (vila) said : 		#5

The launchpad answer system works best when questions/answers stay focused (so that others can search a solution to their own problem).

Your feedback is very welcome though but the mailing list (https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/bazaar) may be a better place to discuss wide range of issues.

The TortoiseBzr invalid links is a known bug but hopefully is will be fixed in the upcoming 1.12 final setup.exe

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Mike Kay (mikekay) said : 		#6

Understood and will move this discussing over there. Thank you.