[Courses] [Tools] Bzr and Python

[Clytie Siddall]

On 17/03/2006, at 11:06 PM, Catherine Devlin wrote:

> I'm also confused about whether, for instance, I need to run bzr from
> the top-level directory.  (Do I need to be in versioned/projects to
> issue "bzr merge media/usbdisk/versioned/projects", or can I issue it
> from a lower-level directory like versioned/projects/myProject1/ ?
> And if I do issue it from there, should I issue "bzr merge
> media/usbdisk/versioned/projects/myProject1" instead?  etc.)

I have a similar confusion about SVN. In my text editor, which  
handles CVS, SVN and Perforce (I only use the first two), when  
setting my preferences for SVN, I'm asked for the root dir. Same in  
my SVN GUI, svnx.

Now, with CVS, the root directory can be any dir. which has a sub- 
directory containing versioned files, i.e. a sub-directory with its  
own CVS sub-sub-directory.

But with SVN, it seems that you can't choose a "root" directory,  
unless _it_ contains versioned files.

In my working copies, since I'm doing translations, I have lots of  
individual dirs. with their own translations, within an umbrella dir.  
hierarchy.

With CVS, I can simply set the root dir. as "Gnome", for example, and  
that includes all the gnome dirs. under it which have versioned files.

With SVN, it looks like I have to select separate "root" folders, and  
create separate settings, for each dir. which has versioned  
files. :S  That's hundreds of separate dirs!

I really don't understand this. It's one thing I'll be really glad to  
clear up.

As I said in another mail, I really want to fill in the difference  
between being able to use something for specific tasks, and actually  
understanding it.

from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm  
Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN