[Python-Dev] Looking for VCS usage scenarios (original) (raw)

David Cournapeau cournape at gmail.com
Thu Nov 6 12:45:55 CET 2008

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 8:35 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

I'd expect any DVCS to be able to handily beat what I currently do with SVN:

Yes, it does. I have extensive experience in bzr, less in git (but vastly prefer it since I have been using it), and both are relatively good for this kind of scenario.

In git, you can for example create a new branch (often called feature branch, also technically, it is just a branch):

git co -b newbranch1 # Create new branch1 and go into it

hack, commit

git cb -n newbranch2 # create new branch2

More hacking

git co newbranch1 # go back to branch 1

It can be more elaborate than that, using stash to set uncommitted changes, rebase to update your changes on the top of the last revision of the main branch you are tracking (trunk in svn parlance). Bzr is similar, except that it is more commands to switch from branch to branch; bzr has the shelve command to do as git stash. You can also use loom, but I never used them extensively (loom are a plugin extension of bzr, and not well documented; I could not understand it, at least, although I did not try too hard).

cheers,

David

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