Getting started with bzr-svn (was Re: bzr-svn and subversion revisions)

[Matt Doran]

John Szakmeister wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Matt Doran<matt.doran at papercut.com> wrote:
> [snip]
>   
>> It's this type of stuff that scares me off.   For me, it raises more
>> questions than it answers.   It would be great to have some worked examples
>> of various scenarios to give newbies somewhere to start.
>>     
>
> Matt, please don't let it scare you.  My situation is much more
> complicated than most. :-)  But my hope is to do exactly what you're
> saying: give several scenarios of how to use bzr-svn.  What Jelmer is
> saying, is that he's worked bzr-svn to not re-order commits by
> default.  Translated: there will be nothing that appears in the
> Subversion repository that is unfamiliar to a regular svn user.  On
> the whole, bzr and bzr-svn are *fantastic* and liberating.  You should
> really give it a go.  But start small, and setup a sandbox svn repo,
> and try it out.  I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. :-)
>
> Also, the folks here are rather nice.  Jelmer has been very responsive
> to bzr-svn related questions and issues, and I'm certainly willing to
> answer questions as well.
>
>
>   
Thanks for the encouragement! :)   

When I get some spare cycles I'll definitely give it a go.    The native 
SVN client seems to continually get slower ... it takes about 10-20 
seconds to get a commit rolling on a pretty big working copy.  So I'm 
keen to see the what bzr can do for me/us.

Cheers,
Matt