Wednesday 24 August 2011

How to use Bazaar under Dropbox?

If you are code monkey or programmer, you might would like working anywhere when you have some awesome ideas. It is useful to make sure the source codes on all devices that you are working on keep up to date. Of course, you can use some paid cloud servers or Dropbox (free for 2G), but it is not convenient to track the log of your modification. What if your latest codes do not work, but it works yesterday? You really like reverting to the working version.

OK. The simple way is to bind Bazaar and Dropbox. Bazaar is one of the free subversion control softwares, like svn, git. What you need to do is just following the steps below.

  1.  Create a folder in dropbox as your work branch
  2.  Use bazaar GUI or command line to initialize this folder which just created in dropbox
  3.  Create a local folder as your local working folder
  4.  In bazaar GUI, checkout the work branch in dropbox to your local working folder; or use command line


    mkdir local-working-folder
    cd local-working-folder
    bzr checkout #Dropbox/work-branch

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