[Systers-dev] A branch of our own?

[Anne Gunn]

   This may just be a Bazaar/Systers newbie question, so please feel free
   to give me a gentle RTFManual or RTFEmail answer if that is
   appropriate.
   Erica is currently making changes to the copy of the development branch
   that she pulled down to her local machine per the instructions
   at [1]http://systers.org/systers-dev/doku.php/using_launchpad and the
   launchpad/bazaar documentation.
   She should be committing locally whenever she has made a change that
   she wants to keep and, eventually, merge up into the development
   branch.  (Erica, see the section labelled 'Making changes to your
   files' here:
   [2]http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/latest/en/mini-tutorial/index.html)
    She is also producing fixes in the form of patches and contributing
   them to launchpad defect reports when appropriate.
   But, for Simone and I to stay synchronized with what Erica is doing in
   her local branch, should we be doing some sort of peer-to-peer
   commit/pull?  Or should we make a branch of our own up in launchpad?
   The central branch up on launchpad seems the most natural to me since
   I'm an old centralized VCS hand.  Also easier for the gatekeeper to use
   when it comes time to merge Erica's changes back up into the
   development/production branch.
   The peer-to-peer model seems possible
   ([3]http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/latest/en/user-guide/partner_intro.
   html) but I'm not finding the detailed instructions about how you'd do
   that in a truly distributed (read:  WAN/net) environment.  If Erica's
   repository was on a lan with me, I'm sure I could figure out the
   command syntax to use to pull updates from her repository.  But how do
   I do it across the net?
   Or am I missing the boat entirely and Erica should just be committing
   straight back into the Development branch when she has a change we are
   confident about?
   ag, TeamWishList
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   Anne Gunn
   ompeag @ wyoming.com
   307 673 5234

References

   1. http://systers.org/systers-dev/doku.php/using_launchpad
   2. http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/latest/en/mini-tutorial/index.html
   3. http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/latest/en/user-guide/partner_intro.html