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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. Bazaar is part of the GNU project to
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develop a complete free operating system <http://www.gnu.org/>, and a project
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of Canonical <http://www.canonical.com/>.
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Ready-to-install packages are available for most popular operating systems from
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<http://wiki.bazaar.canonical.com/Download/> or you can install from source by
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following the instructions in the INSTALL file.
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To learn how to use Bazaar, see the official documentation in the `doc`
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directory or at <http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/en/>.
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For additional training materials including screencasts and slides,
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visit our community wiki documentation page at:
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http://wiki.bazaar.canonical.com/Documentation/
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Bazaar is Free Software, and is released under the GNU General Public License,
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Bazaar directly supports both central version control (like cvs/svn) and
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distributed version control (like git/hg). Developers can organize their
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workspace in whichever way they want on a per project basis including:
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* checkouts (like svn)
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* feature branches (like hg)
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* shared working tree (like git).
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It also directly supports and encourages a large number of development best
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practices like refactoring and pre-commit regression testing. Users can
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choose between our command line tool and our cross-platform GUI application.
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For further details, see our website at http://bazaar.canonical.com/en/
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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.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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Our mission is to make a version control tool that developers LOVE to use
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and that casual contributors feel confident with. Please let us know how
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Release notes for Bazaar-NG 0.0.5
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mbp@sourcefrog.net, May 2005, Canberra
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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.
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You may optionally install cElementTree to speed up some operations.
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This is strongly recommended if you are dealing with large trees.
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This package includes copies of two Python libraries, elementtree and
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If you are building .deb or .rpm packages for bzr, please don't
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include these libraries but instead package them separately and depend
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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 and
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urlgrabber separately.