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Bazaar is a decentralized revision control system, designed to be easy
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for developers and end users alike.
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Bazaar (``bzr``) is a decentralized revision control system, designed to be
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easy for developers and end users alike.
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To install Bazaar from source, follow the instructions in the INSTALL
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file. Otherwise, you may want to check your distribution package manager
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founders of Ubuntu and Launchpad. Bazaar is Free Software, and is released
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under the GNU General Public License.
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Bazaar was formerly known as Bazaar-NG, and some documentation still uses
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that old name. Also, since the Bazaar binary is called "bzr", many times this
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shorter name is used instead (like Subversion/svn and Mercurial/hg).
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Bazaar was formerly known as Bazaar-NG. It's the successor to ``baz``, a fork
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of GNU arch, but shares no code. (To upgrade from Baz, use the ``baz-import``
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command in the bzrtools plugin.)
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* Easy to use and intuitive.
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Only five commands are needed to do all basic operations, and all
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commands have documentation accessible via 'bzr help command'.
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Bazaar's interface is also easy to learn for CVS and Subversion users.
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* Robust and reliable.
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Bazaar is developed under an extensive test suite. Branches can be
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checked and verified for integrity at any time, and revisions can be
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signed with PGP/GnuPG.
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* Easy to use and intuitive.
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Only five commands are needed to do all basic operations, and all
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commands have documentation accessible via 'bzr help command'.
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Bazaar's interface is also easy to learn for CVS and Subversion users.
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* Robust and reliable.
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Bazaar is developed under an extensive test suite. Branches can be
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checked and verified for integrity at any time, and revisions can be
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signed with PGP/GnuPG.
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* Publish branches with HTTP.
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Changes will never be merged more than once, conflicts will be
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minimized, and identical changes are dealt with well.
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Changes will never be merged more than once, conflicts will be
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minimized, and identical changes are dealt with well.
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* Vibrant and active community.
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Help with Bazaar is obtained easily, via the mailing list, or the IRC
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channel. Check http://bazaar-vcs.org/BzrSupport for details.
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Registration and Feedback
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If you encounter any problems with Bazaar, need help understanding it, or would
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like to offer suggestions or feedback, please get in touch with us:
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* Ask a question through our web support interface, at
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https://answers.launchpad.net/bzr/
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* Report bugs at https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bzr/+filebug
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* Write to us at bazaar@lists.canonical.com
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You can join the list at <https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/bazaar>.
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You don't need to subscribe to post, but your first post will be held
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briefly for manual moderation.
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* Talk to us in irc://irc.ubuntu.com/bzr
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* And see http://bazaar-vcs.org/BzrSupport for more.
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If you would like to help us improve Bazaar by telling us about yourself and
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what we could do better, please register and complete the online survey here:
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http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=L94RvLswhKdktrxiHWiX3g_3d_3d.
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Registration is completely optional.