IMPORTANT!

This build of tortoisebzr is discontinued; the latest version of the tortoisebzr interface is available in the windows download at http://bazaar-vcs.org/

About

TortoiseBzr is a Windows shell extension (similar to TortoiseCVS) for viewing the source control status of a bzr tree from within Windows Explorer.

It is derived from bzr-gtk.

Status

• Icon overlays work
• Context menu hooks allow commit, checkout, and diff.

BUGS

• When launching a commit / diff window, attempting to do anything in any other explorer window will likely cause explorer to lock up. This is likely due to the tortoisebzr com objects running in a single threaded apartment (so explorer attempting to talk to the com object again will lock up). The best fix is likely to spawn a new process to display the gui (instead of running them in the explorer process).

TODO

• Speed it up (it currently causes a noticable delay when browsing)
• Share a common 'source control' shell icon overlay extension with tortoisecvs (to avoid using too many icon overlays).
• Hook in the meld diff / merge utility.
• Enable add, merge, log, revert, etc context menu options
• Only display relevant context menu items
• Integrate pygtk and tortoisebzr into the bzr installer
• Single file logging
• Implement the ICopyHook shell interface to detect when the user moves or deletes files (and update the bzr status accordingly). Note this is only used by the shell, so it is only called in response to user actions (not programatic actions).

Screenshots

Development

The tortoisebzr development branch is available by running:

bzr get http://www.hl.id.au/Projects/tortoisebzr/bzr-tortoise

To register the shell extension, run:

set PYTHONPATH=c:\somepath\bzr.dev
python tortoise-bzr.py

To remove the shell extension, run:

python tortoise-bzr.py --unregister