should we use bazaar?

Hi all,

since I still have internet connection problems I constantly am aware of
the fact, that I can not commit my code, I can not even really work on
other bugs, because I can not do a checkout... and doing a commit?
Forget it. This sucks big times.

I noticed, that with bazaar and other distributed revision tools I won't
have this problem at all. Because even if I would not be able to do the
commit I would still be able to work on a different branch for each bug
I fix and then merge them all together as soon as the internet works again.

So I searched a bit in the net (using public internet) and I found that
there exists bazaar-gtk
(http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Programming/Version-Control/Bazaar-GTK-20586.shtml)
and tortoise-bzr (http://bazaar-vcs.org/TortoiseBzr), two tools with UIs
  that can be used on windows or linux to handle updates, commits and
whatever, both contain bindings with the file manager (nautilus for
bazaar-gtk, windows explorer for tortoise-bzr). Also bazaar is available
on every platform and it seems as it can use subversion as backend too.

We should really target to migrate to bazaar I think. I looked at git as
well, but it seems the tool-support isn't as nice as for bazaar. Those
UIs have the advantage, that you don't need to use the IDE internals for
this. I always worked like that when I was still on windows and still do
so most of the time, but now without UI.

So my question is more or less, if someone has
(1) a good reason to not to switch
(2) tested the tools
(3) can explain why another tool is better

Russel? You like bazaar most too, yes? What do others think?

bye blackdrag

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Jochen "blackdrag" Theodorou
The Groovy Project Tech Lead (http://groovy.codehaus.org)
http://blackdragsview.blogspot.com/
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