Bazaar is a distributed version control system available under the GPL that reduces barriers to participation in your project.
Bazaar is designed to support Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, UNIX, Windows. In summary, Bazaar gives you fast, distributed revision control that "Just Works", supporting renames of directories and files smoothly.
Bazaar is designed to maximise the level of community participation in your project.
Bazaar branches can be published on any web server, and uploaded over sftp, ftp, or rsync. If you want the fastest possible network performance, there is a smart server.
Bazaar supports flexible work models: centralized like cvs or svn, commit offline, enforced code review when desired, and automatic regression testing.
Decentralized revision control systems give people the ability to collaborate more efficiently over the internet using the bazaar development model and have many other advantages.
When you use Bazaar, you can commit to your own local branches of your favourite free software projects without needing special permission.
Here are some key features of "Bazaar":
Good performance:
· Bazaar status in a tree of 5,000 files takes just 0.5 seconds, so almost every open source project can get the advanced features of Bazaar without slowing down its developers. Bazaar is robust in the face of radical tree restructuring, saving you time when it comes to merging from your community.
Safe with your data:
· There have not been any data loss bugs in a Bazaar release in the past two years. Bazaar has a huge test suite that ensures that new file formats can be tested automatically. The development process follows best practice with code review of all core and community code landings.
Friendly:
· Bazaar "Just Works" (which is why the Ubuntu team chose it for their project). Bazaar has a natural feel, you can publish your code on any web server or use a custom server for performance. Bazaar has perfect support for renaming files AND directories, which means you can unleash your community and merge efficiently even from contributors who are radically restructuring the tree.
Free:
· Bazaar is available under the GPL v2 or later.
Easy to integrate:
· Bazaar is designed as a Python API with a plugin system, so it is easy to embed in your tools and projects and easy to extend or integrate with existing infrastructure. Whether you are managing your development, or keeping track of configuration files, or building a new content management system, Bazaar is a great choice if you like to work in Python.
Requirements:
· Python 2.4 or later
What`s New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
External Compatibility Breaks:
· ``bzr-2.4`` has officially dropped support for python2.4 and python2.5. We will continue to maintain ``bzr-2.3`` for people who still need to use those versions of python. (John Arbash Meinel)
New Features:
· The text compressor used for 2a repositories now has a tweakable parameter that can be set in bazaar.conf. ``bzr.groupcompress.max_entries_per_source`` default of 65536. When doing compression, we build up an index of locations to match against. Setting this higher will result in slightly better compression, at a cost of more memory. Note that a value of 65k represents fully sampling a 1MB file. So this only has an effect when compressing texts larger than N*16 bytes. (John Arbash Meinel, #602614)
Improvements:
· ``bzr branch --stacked`` from a smart server uses the network a little more efficiently. For a simple branch it reduces the number of round-trips by about 20%. (Andrew Bennetts)
· ``bzr log --line`` scales the width of the author field with th...
