Bazaar

Bazaar is a distributed version control system available under the GPL that aids open source development and reduces barriers to participation. Our priorities are to be safe, friendly, free and fast, and to support Windows, GNU/Linux, UNIX and the Mac OS. Bazaar gives you fast, distributed revision control that "just works", supporting renames of files and directories smoothly. Bazaar is designed to maximise the level of community participation in your project.

Now with support from Canonical

To ensure the success of introducing a new system that has a critial impact on your project we recommend taking a support subscription from Canonical. Canonical is the sponsor the Ubuntu and Bazaar projects and support is provided by dedicated Bazaar and VCS experts. If you want maximise what distributed version control can do for your business and project please submit an enquiry

Code Hosting from Launchpad.net

Bazaar is part of the Launchpad project. Launchpad provides code hosting, bug tracking, blueprint submission and translation services for a host of open source and commercial projects. So for a full service we recommend that you host your code on Launchpad.net.

To discover more: www.launchpad.net

Bazaar is:

Reliable

  • Developed under an extensive test suite
  • Check & verify branches at any time
  • Optionally gnupg sign revisions with testaments.

Easy to use

  • Users are productive with only five commands.
  • Approximately one dozen core commands.
  • Extensive help for all commands -- even the esoteric ones.

Portable

  • Works and is formally tested on both Linux / UNIX and Windows
  • Written in Python to work on a huge variety of platforms
  • Packages exist for all major OS's for very easy installation

Intuitive

  • Manage branches with OS commands too -- including rm, cp and mv.
  • Branch anything by committing in any downloaded branch.
  • Aliases for CVS and SVN users allow for easy migration.

Uniquely Powerful

  • Uncommit capability
  • Supports Unicode filenames.
  • Branches are removable.

For More Information

The project website can be found at www.bazaar-vcs.org