Questions[version-control](ubuntu)

I need a script to check if yad (and other programs) version number is >= to a specific number. For example I have:

$ yad --version
0.40.0 (GTK+ 3.24.8)

$ gedit --version
gedit - Version 3.32.0

$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 5.0.3(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

• For yad new features are added between Ubuntu 16.04 and 19.04
• For gedit the ability to pass Window geometry is lost in newer versions
• bash complicates tests as the version number is in the middle of the first line.

An environment variable will not exist for all programs like bash has:

$ echo $BASH_VERSION
5.0.3(1)-release

What I want ?

We operate in a small team of 9 people including developers, QA and designers. I want to setup a version control. We have a ubuntu (server edition) and i want to host all our repositories there. I have no understanding that even if it is possible.

What I have done?

We have setup bazaar on all distributions. We are using Bazaar explorer as our gui front-end. The command edition from console isn't very comfortable to all members. We have gone through the manual, but it hasn't been very helpful. Our inexperience being the cause.

Team

The designers are using windows distribution and developers & QA are using ubuntu distributions.

I have googled around and i am really struggling to find a good tutorial for this setup. So any links/guides/leads towards accomplishing the same would be very helpful.

While posting links or answer please do consider our inexperience.

I've tried TortoiseHG from the repositories, but it wasn't working at all.

Etckeeper is a great tool for keeping track of changes to your configuration files in /etc. A few key things about it really stand out. It can be used with a wide variety of VCSs: git, mercurial, darcs, or bzr. It also does auto commits daily and whenever you install, remove or upgrade package. It also keeps track of file permissions and user/group ownership metadata.

I would also like to keep my "dot files" in my home directory under version control as well, preferably bazaar. Does anyone know if a tool like etckeeper exists for this purpose?

Worst case, I imagine that a simple cron job running bzr add && bzr ci once or twice a day along with adding ~/Documents, ~/Music, etc to the .bzrignore Anyone already doing something similar with a script?

While I'd prefer bazaar, other options might be interesting.

Why there is a git package and a git-core package? Is there any difference?