Not a holy war - just some salient facts

[Harry Putnam]

Adrian Buehlmann <adrian at cadifra.com> writes:

> On 09.04.2010 00:45, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Can some advanced user here list reasons why bazaar might be better
>> than mercurial, for the usage described briefly below.
>> 
>> Or, if merc would, in fact, be the better tool.
>> 
>
> I stopped looking at Bazaar after having seen how slow 'bzr check' is.

Was that across a wide area network, or is that kind of operation
local?

> But it seems a lot of users never check their repos. Otherwise I can't
> explain why anyone ever would use bzr.

So, are you saying it has other problems, making it a poor choice?

> Did they make any progress there in the mean time? How long takes a bzr
> check of the Bazaar repo itself on your computer? (last time I checked
> it roughly took 1.5 hours here, with very high CPU load while doing so).

I'm sorry I may have given the impression, I was familiar with bzr,
but actually have NO experience with it.

I know some of the emacs developers favor bazaar, and I've found those
folks to be quite knowledgeable about things in general.  Of course
their usage would be quite notably different from mine. 

Possibly the reason my original post sounded a bit awkward was that I
meant to post it on the Bazaar group, and not here.  Once I noticed my
mistake I was afraid it would look like some kind of troll if I
reposted it on bazaar list too.

I'm currently experimenting only with mercurial... the actual
versioning tool I use currently for non-experimental versioning is
`cvs'.  Its also the only versioning tool I have long term experience
with currently.

I'm working on learning mercurial right now and wanted to find out if
I may have picked the wrong tool for my usage.

I have no good reason to think that is the case, and am slowly
learning to use mercurial. So far it seem fast and good, but I'm just
getting started.

One of the selling points you hear about mercurial is that it really
scales (upward) well, and that is not likely to be a factor for my
usage. 

My post (accidentally put here) was to get opinions from experienced
users about whether my usage scenario may indicate a different
versioning tool would be better.