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README for Bazaar DEVELOPMENT VERSION
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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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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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for ready-to-install packages, or http://bazaar-vcs.org/DistroDownloads.
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To learn how to use Bazaar, check the documentation in the doc/ directory.
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Once installed, you can also run 'bzr help'. An always up-to-date and more
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complete set of documents can be found in the Bazaar website, at:
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http://bazaar-vcs.org/Documentation
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Bazaar is written in Python, and is sponsored by Canonical Limited, the
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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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* 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 lern 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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Branches can be hosted on an HTTP server with no need for special
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software on the server side. Branches can be uploaded by bzr itself
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over SSH (SFTP), or with rsync.
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* Adapts to multiple environments.
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Bazaar runs on Linux and Windows, fully supports Unicode filenames,
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and suits different development models, including centralized.
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* Easily extended and customized.
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A rich Python interface is provided for extending and embedding,
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including a plugin interface. There are already many available plugins,
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most of them registered at http://bazaar-vcs.org/PluginRegistry.
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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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Release notes for Bazaar-NG (pre-0)
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mbp@sourcefrog.net, March 2005, Canberra
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* There is little locking or transaction control here; if you
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interrupt it the tree may be arbitrarily broken. This will be
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* Don't use this for critical data; at the very least keep separate
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regular snapshots of your tree.
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This is mostly developed on Linux (Ubuntu); it should work on Unix,
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Windows, or OS X with relatively little trouble.
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The only dependency is Python, at least 2.3 and preferably 2.4. On
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Windows, Python2.4 is required.
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You may optionally install cElementTree to speed up some operations.
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The best way to install bzr is to symlink the ``bzr`` command onto a
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directory on your path. For example::
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ln -s ~/work/bzr/bzr ~/bin/bzr
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If you use a symlink for this, Python will be able to automatically
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find the bzr libraries. Otherwise you must ensure they are listed on
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After installing, please run the test suite to identify any problems
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If you use the setup.py script then bzr will be installed into the
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specified path. In this case you must install ElementTree or
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cElementTree separately.
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