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*Bazaar-NG* (``bzr``) is a project of `Canonical Ltd`__ to develop an
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open source distributed version control system that is powerful,
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friendly, and scalable. The project is at an early stage of
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__ http://canonical.com/
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**Note:** These documents are in a very preliminary state, and so may
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be internally or externally inconsistent or redundant. Comments are
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still very welcome. Please send them to <mbp@sourcefrog.net>.
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For more information, see the homepage at http://bazaar-ng.org/
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* `Project overview/introduction <intro.html>`__
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* `Command reference <cmdref.html>`__ -- intended to be user
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documentation, and gives the best overview at the moment of what the
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system will feel like to use. Fairly complete.
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Requirements and general design
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* `Various purposes of a VCS <purpose.html>`__ -- taking snapshots and
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helping with merges is not the whole story.
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* `Requirements <requirements.html>`__
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* `Costs <costs.html>`__ of various factors: time, disk, network, etc.
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* `Deadly sins <deadly-sins.html>`__ that gcc maintainers suggest we avoid.
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* `Overview of the whole design <design.html>`__ and miscellaneous
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* `File formats <formats.html>`__
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* `Random observations <random.html>`__ that don't fit anywhere else yet.
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Design of particular features
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* `Automatic generation of ChangeLogs <changelogs.html>`__
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* `Cherry picking <cherry-picking.html>`__ -- merge just selected non-contiguous changes from a branch.
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* `Common changeset format <common-format.html>`__ for interchange
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* `Compression <compression.html>`__ of file text for more efficient storage.
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* `Config specs <config-specs.html>`__ assemble a tree from several places.
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* `Conflicts <conflicts.html>`_ that can occur during merge-like
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* `Ignored files <ignore.html>`__
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* `Recovering from interrupted operations <interrupted.html>`__
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* `Inventory command <inventory.html>`__
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* `Branch joins <join-branches.html>`__ represent that all the changes
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from one branch are integrated into another.
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* `Kill a version <kill-version.html>`__ to fix a broken commit or
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remove confidential information from the history.
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* `Hash collisions <hashes.html>`__ and weaknesses, and the security
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* `Layers <layers.html>`__ within the design
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* `Library interface <library-interface.html>`__ for Python.
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* `Merge <merge.html>`__
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* `Mirroring <mirroring.html>`__
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* `Optional edit command <optional-edit.html>`__: sometimes people
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want to make the working copy read-only, or not present at all.
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* `Partial commits <partial-commit.html>`__
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* `Patch pools <pool.html>`__ to efficiently store related branches.
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* `Revfiles <revfile.html>`__ store the text history of files.
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* `Revision syntax <revision-syntax.html>`__ -- ``hello.c@12``, etc.
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* `Roll-up commits <rollup.html>`__ -- a single revision incorporates
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the changes from several others.
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* `Scalability <scalability.html>`__
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* `Security <security.html>`__
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* `Shared branches <shared-branches.html>`__ maintained by more than
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* `Supportability <supportability.html>`__ -- how to handle any bugs
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or problems in the field.
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* `Place tags on revisions for easy reference <tagging.html>`__
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* `Detecting unchanged files <unchanged.html>`__
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* `Merging previously-unrelated branches <unrelated-merge.html>`__
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* `Usability principles <usability.html>`__ (very small at the moment)
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* `<use-cases.html>`__
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* `<web-interface.html>`__
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* `<workflow.html>`__ Modelling/controlling flow of patches.
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* `<yaml.html>`__ -- Discussion of using YAML_ as a storage or transmission format.
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.. _YAML: http://www.yaml.org/
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Comparisons to other systems
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* `Taxonomy <taxonomy.html>`__: basic questions a VCS must answer.
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* `Bitkeeper <bitkeeper.html>`__, the proprietary system used by some
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* `Aegis <compared-aegis.html>`__, a tool focussed on enforcing
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process and workflow.
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* `Codeville <compared-codeville.html>`__ has an intruiging but
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scarcely-documented merge algorithm.
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* `CVSNT <compared-cvsnt.html>`__, with more Windows support and some
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* `OpenCM <compared-opencm.html>`__, another hash-based tool with a
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* `PRCS <compared-prcs.html>`__, a non-distributed inventory-based tool.
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* `GNU Arch <todo-from-arch.html>`__, with many pros and cons.
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* `Darcs <darcs.html>`__, a merge-focussed tool with good usability.
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* `Quilt <quilt.html>`__ -- Andrew Morton's patch scripts, popular with kernel maintainers.
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* `Monotone <monotone.html>`__, Graydon Hoare's hash-based distributed system.
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* `SVK <svk.html>`__ -- distributed operation stacked on Subversion.
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* `Sun Teamware <compared-teamware.html>`__
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* `Notes on how to get a VCS adopted <adoption.html>`__
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* `Thanks <thanks.html>`__ to various people
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* `Extra commands <extra-commands.html>`__ for
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* `Choice of Python as a development language <python.html>`__
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