Released Bazaar 1.17, the version control system available under the GPL that aids open source development

Bazaar is a distributed version control system available under the GPL that aids open source development and reduces barriers to participation. Our priorities are to be safe, friendly, free and fast, and to support Windows, GNU/Linux, UNIX and the Mac OS. Bazaar gives you fast, distributed revision control that "just works", supporting renames of files and directories smoothly. Bazaar is designed to maximise the level of community participation in your project.
Now with support from Canonical

To ensure the success of introducing a new system that has a critial impact on your project we recommend taking a support subscription from Canonical. Canonical is the sponsor the Ubuntu and Bazaar projects and support is provided by dedicated Bazaar and VCS experts. If you want maximise what distributed version control can do for your business and project please submit an enquiry
Code Hosting from Launchpad.net

Bazaar is part of the Launchpad project. Launchpad provides code hosting, bug tracking, blueprint submission and translation services for a host of open source and commercial projects. So for a full service we recommend that you host your code on Launchpad.net.

MySQL, Mailman, Launchpad, and the Linux Foundation are among the many projects and organizations using Bazaar.

Bazaar runs on Windows, GNU/Linux, UNIX and Mac OS, and requires only Python 2.4. If you can run Python, you can run Bazaar! It is an official GNU project, licensed under the GPLv2 or later, at your option.

Bazaar is:
Reliable

    * Developed under an extensive test suite
    * Check & verify branches at any time
    * Optionally gnupg sign revisions with testaments.

Easy to use

    * Users are productive with only five commands.
    * Approximately one dozen core commands.
    * Extensive help for all commands -- even the esoteric ones.

Portable

    * Works and is formally tested on both Linux / UNIX and Windows
    * Written in Python to work on a huge variety of platforms
    * Packages exist for all major OS's for very easy installation

Intuitive

    * Manage branches with OS commands too -- including rm, cp and mv.
    * Branch anything by committing in any downloaded branch.
    * Aliases for CVS and SVN users allow for easy migration.

Uniquely Powerful

    * Uncommit capability
    * Supports Unicode filenames.
    * Branches are removable.

For More Information

The project website can be found at www.bazaar-vcs.org

Bazaar runs on GNU/Linux, UNIX, Windows and OS X out of the box. Bazaar is:

• Friendly. Distributed version control doesn't need to be complex. Bazaar is Version Control for Human Beings. Bazaar has a natural feel because we focus on usability, particularly task efficiency.

• Smart. Bazaar has perfect support for renaming files and directories. This means developers can refactor without holding back because of fear of merging. It also means you can unleash your community and merge efficiently even from contributors who are radically restructuring the tree.

• Fast. Almost every open source project can get the advanced features of Bazaar without slowing down its developers. See our impressive benchmark results across a wide range of open source projects.

• Lightweight. No dedicated server with Bazaar installed is needed, just FTP access to a web server. A smart server is available for those requiring additional performance or security but it is not required in many cases - Bazaar 1.x over plain http performs well.

• Just a tool. Bazaar can play a key role in helping you get from great idea to running code in the hands of end users. Our documentation explicitly sets out to make you productive, explaining how to use Bazaar effectively, presenting best practices and insightful tips.

• Extensible. 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. Integration via XML is supported by a plugin. Whether you are a single user keeping track of configuration files or a team of 100s of people on multiple continents, Bazaar is a great choice.

• Embeddable. A key design feature of Bazaar is support from the ground up for pluggable storage formats. One size does not fit all, particularly when new application delivery platforms - like the OLPC, iPod and Amazon's S3 - have different characteristics to traditional filesystems. If you want intelligent version control embedded into your application or content management system, Bazaar has the architecture you need.

• Safe. Bazaar is backed by a thriving open source community and sponsored by Canonical, one of the fastest growing open source companies around. The development process follows best practices with code review of all core and community changes. Bazaar has a huge test suite (over 10,000 tests) that ensures that new features can be rapidly added without breaking existing ones. We are rapidly building the world's best VCS, delivering several dozen improvements to our adopters each and every month.

• Free. Bazaar is available under the GPL v2 or later. If you want to embed Bazaar into your products under a different license, please contact us.

Bazaar 1.17 was released on the 20th of July, 2009.

Download and Install Bazaar

If you can run Python 2.4 or later then you can run Bazaar. The current stable version is 1.17, released on the 20th of July, 2009. More recent development builds may be available for some platforms; see below.

The log of all changes made in each release is available in the release notes

Source of the stable release for any platform	bzr-1.17.tar.gz signature changelog	installation faq
GNU/Linux:
Ubuntu	ppa repository, beta ppa nightly ppa	instructions
Debian	apt repository	instructions
Fedora	yum repository	instructions
CentOS/RHEL	yum repository	instructions
Mandriva	urpmi repository	instructions
Slackware	SlackBuild Script	instructions
Gentoo	dev-util/bzr
openSUSE	1-Click Install (openSUSE 11.1)
UNIX:
FreeBSD	in ports: devel/bazaar-ng
AIX	from the bazaar for unix page: bzrunix
Solaris
HP-UX
Windows:
Windows installer	default 1.17 installer other options	instructions
Cygwin	standard package repository
Mac OS X:
Mac OS X 10.5 installer	1.17 disk image	instructions
Mac OS X 10.4 installer	1.17 disk image for Python 2.5 and 2.6	instructions
Mac OS X via MacPorts	MacPorts repository	instructions
Mac OS X via Fink	Fink repository
Mobile:
N800	Bzr 1.1 debs	notes

To get the latest development version run:

•  bzr branch http://bazaar-vcs.org/bzr/bzr.dev bzr.dev 

You can run directly from the source tree, or read the installation instructions.

After installing Bazaar you can add plugins or 3rdPartyTools, which add additional or experimental features.

If you have trouble with installation, please ask on #bzr in irc.freenode.net or consult the mailing list. (Your first list post will be held for moderation and then all others will go through automatically.)

Source for older releases

Older versions of bazaar are available from https://launchpad.net/bzr/+download

• bzr-1.16.1.tar.gz

• bzr-1.15.1.tar.gz

• bzr-1.14.1.tar.gz

• bzr-1.14.tar.gz

• bzr-1.13.2.tar.gz

• bzr-1.13.1.tar.gz

• bzr-1.13.tar.gz

• bzr-1.12.tar.gz

• bzr-1.11.tar.gz

• bzr-1.10.tar.gz

• bzr-1.9.tar.gz

• bzr-1.8.tar.gz

• bzr-1.7.1.tar.gz

• bzr-1.7.tar.gz

• bzr-1.6.1.tar.gz

• bzr-1.6.tar.gz

Plugins for Bazaar:

How to Install a plugin

Installing a plugin is very easy! One can either install a plugin systemwide or on a user-by-user basis. Both methods involve creating a "plugins" directory, within which one places plugins in subdirectories. For example, "plugins/bzrtools/".

Two locations are currently checked: the bzrlib/plugins directory (typically found in something like /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/) and $HOME/.bazaar/plugins/ (or on Windows, $APPDATA/bazaar/2.0/plugins).

If you want to install a plugin into your .bazaar/plugins/ directory, just move the extension directory in there and then run python setup.py build_ext -i.

One can additionally override the home plugins by setting the environment variable BZR_PLUGIN_PATH to a directory that contains plugins. The installation of a plugin can be checked by running  bzr plugins  at any time. New commands can be seen by running  bzr help commands .

Since Bazaar 0.15, the plugin folders may not contain dashes like bzr-gtk. Instead, rename such plugin directories to something without a dash, e.g., gtk.

Additional dashes may be converted to underscores, for example:

bzr branch lp:bzr-push-and-update ~/.bazaar/plugins/push_and_update

Tip for developers

If you are tracking the "tip" of Bazaar, using the cutting edge development version and keeping it up to date, then you can easily do the same with most of the plugins. For example, to install the bzrtools plugin for your main user account, run:

bzr branch lp:bzrtools ~/.bazaar/plugins/bzrtools

After doing this, you can update the bzrtools plugin to its tip at any time with:

cd ~/.bazaar/plugins/bzrtools; bzr pull; cd -

Writing a plugin

See the WritingPlugins page for how to write a plugin.

Lists of available plugins

This section lists plugins for Bazaar that are available under a free software licence. Please do not add non-free plug-ins to this page unless they are read-only, in the sense that they are designed primarily to provide a migration pathway from a non-free revision control system to Bazaar.

How to read these listings: Most URLs point to bzr branches, which may look like empty directories if you open them in a web browser. Instead, use bzr branch <url> to download them. You can then keep them up to date simply by changing into the directory with the plugin code and typing bzr pull, which will update that plugin to the latest revision of that branch.

At right side of tables you can see info about plugin compatibility with different operating systems. See legend.

Extensions to existing Bazaar commands

			Platform
Name	Part of	Owner	GNU/Linux	Windows	Mac
Description		Home
atomlog	None	SimonRozet			?
Bzr log in atom format.		URL to branch
bzr-pipeline	None	AaronBentley		?	?
Work on large changes as smaller pieces		http://bazaar-vcs.org/BzrPipeline URL to branch
bzr-xmloutput	None	GuillermoGonzalez
add --xml to log, status, annotate, missing, info, version and plugins		https://launchpad.net/bzr-xmloutput URL to branch
commit selector	None	AlexanderBelchenko			?
Simple helper to select files to commit. qcommit (from QBzr) and gcommit (from BzrGtk) are better alternatives.		https://launchpad.net/bzr-commit-selector
countlog	None	Pileofrogs		?	?
Easy activity summary showing how many times each file is changed and when most recent change took place		Countlog
docdiff	None	HAYASHI Kentaro	x		x
diff plugin for office document such as Word/Excel and so on.		URL to branch
encdiff	None	HAYASHI Kentaro	?		?
Yet another diff plugin. this plugin detect file encoding and convert it(UTF-8/EUC-JP/SJIS and so on) automatically to default one(may be cp932 or something else).		URL to branch
extdiff	None	HAYASHI Kentaro	?		?
diff plugin for external diff tools.		URL to branch
gnulog	None	GustavoCarneiro
GNU changelog formatter for bzr log		Download
gzipped_bundle	None	AlexanderBelchenko			?
Allow create and merge gzipped bundles		https://launchpad.net/bzr-gzipped-bundle
htmllog	None	MichaelEllerman			?
Bzr log in html format.		URL to branch
nicehtml	None	FriedrichWeber		?	?
generates an extended branch html information page using Jinja and pygments		URL to branch
interactive	None	AliSabil			?
Adds user interaction to the core commands (only commit and record-patch for now)		URL to branch
lastlog	None	WouterBolsterlee		?	?
Shows most recent commit messages		http://uwstopia.nl/geek/projects/bzr/bzr-lastlog
lessdiff	None	MichaelEllerman		X?	?
Bzr diff in colour and paged with less (or $PAGER)		URL to branch
lesslog	None	MichaelEllerman		X	?
Bzr log paged with less (or $PAGER)		URL to branch
lightweight branching	None	AlexanderBelchenko	?		?
Lightweight branching of lightweight checkouts		https://launchpad.net/bzr-lightweight-branch
merge-into	None	JohnArbashMeinel		?	?
Make it easier to merge another project into this one		https://launchpad.net/bzr-merge-into/
pager	None	Lukáš Lalinský		X	?
Run commands producing long output in a pager ($PAGER or less). This is similar to the lastlog plugin, but more generic and supports more commands (log, diff, cat, help, status).		http://bzr.oxygene.sk/bzr-plugins/pager
push-and-update	None	JohnArbashMeinel		?	?
Provide the "push-and-update" command to automate the running of 'ssh remote bzr update path' after pushing to sftp://remote/path. This allows us to keep a remote working tree up to date.		https://launchpad.net/bzr-push-and-update/

GUI (Graphical User Interfaces for Bazaar)

			Platform
Name	Part of	Owner	GNU/Linux	Windows	Mac
Description		Home
bzr-explorer	None	Bazaar Explorer team
Desktop application for Windows, GNOME, KDE and OS X. Wraps QBzr and/or bzr-gtk applets.		Download or URL to branch
bzr-gtk	None	Bazaar-GTK team
Branch Visualization		URL to branch
difftools	None	StephenWard
Graphical diff tools		Download or URL to branch
QBzr	None	LukasLalinsky		bzr.exe
Qt frontend for some of Bazaar commands		URL to branch

Interoperability with other Version Control Systems

(See also BzrMigration)

			Platform
Name	Part of	Owner	GNU/Linux	Windows	Mac
Description		Home
baz-import	BzrTools	AaronBentley		?	?
Convert Baz 1.x to Bazaar-NG		See BzrTools
bzrcvsserve	BzrCVSServe	JohanDahlin		?	?
Export Bazaar branches to CVS clients		https://launchpad.net/bzrcvsserve
cvsps-import		JohnArbashMeinel		?	?
Import CVS branches into Bazaar, using cvsps to extract patchsets. Supports importing multiple branches		https://launchpad.net/bzr-cvsps-import
fastimport		IanClatworthy
Fast loading of history into Bazaar from most popular tools. Supports multiple branches and mirroring.		https://launchpad.net/bzr-fastimport
git	None	RobertCollins, JelmerVernooij		X	?
Read-only support for Git branches		URL to branch
hg	None	RobertCollins		?	?
Read-only support for Mercurial branches		URL to branch
svn	None	JelmerVernooij
Support for Subversion branches		http://people.samba.org/bzr/jelmer/bzr-svn/trunk/

Web interface

			Platform
Name	Part of	Owner	GNU/Linux	Windows	Mac
Description		Home
loggerhead	None	MichaelHudson and MartinAlbisetti	yes	yes	yes
Recommended web interface for Bazaar (see also WebInterfaces for information about non-plugin web interfaces to Bazaar)		Home page
webserve	None	GoffredoBaroncelli		?	?
A web interface to Bazaar (see also WebInterfaces for information about non-plugin web interfaces to Bazaar)		Browse Download (dev version at URL to branch)

Miscellaneous

			Platform
Name	Part of	Owner	GNU/Linux	Windows	Mac
Description		Home
automv	None	Lukáš Lalinský		?	?
Automatically detect renames/moves in the working tree.		URL to branch
automirror	None	NeilMartinsenBurrell
Automatically update a remote working copy upon commit.		URL to branch
benchdisplay	None	Carl Friedrich Bolz		?	?
Format bzr benchmark times as a nice HTML page		URL to branch
bisect	None			?	?
Find the revision introducing a bug with a binary search		https://launchpad.net/bzr-bisect
branchfeed	None	RobertCollins
Create ATOM feeds in .bzr/branch/branch.atom during commit/push/pull (see also FeedGenerators for information about non-plugin feed generators)		https://launchpad.net/bzr-branchfeed/
bookmarks	None	Lukáš Lalinský			?
Bookmarking system for often used branch locations/URLs.		https://launchpad.net/bzr-bookmarks/
builddeb	None	JamesWestby		?	?
Build Debian packages from Bazaar branches		URL to branch
bzr-bash-completion	None	Duc_Bao_Ta		X	X
BASH completion for BZR		URL to branch
bzr-tcsh-completion	None	RobertWidhopf		X	?
TCSH completion for BZR		URL to branch
bzr-pqm	None	JohnArbashMeinel		?	?
Submit commands to a PQM service		URL to branch
bzr-proe	None	PascalBach
Helper tools to use Bazaar together with PTC's Pro/ENGINEER		https://launchpad.net/bzr-proe
bzr-search	None	RobertCollins
Generate full text indices of branch history. Can be queried from the command line or loggerhead.		Browse [lp:bzr-search Branch]
bzr-text-checker	None	MariusKruger		?	?
Help avoid committing trailing white space and other undesired text.		Project Branch
checkeol	None	AlexanderBelchenko	?		?
Pre-commit hook to check files for correct line-endings		URL to branch
cia	None	JelmerVernooij		?	?
Submit commits to CIA		URL to branch
colocated	None	JelmerVernooij		?	?
Colocated branches support (aka git-style branches)		URL to branch
dbus	None	RobertCollins		?	?
Integrate bazaar with dbus		Browse Branch
depend	None	AlexanderBelchenko	?		?
Show versions of installed libraries used by bzr		https://launchpad.net/bzr-depend
diffstat	None	Russ Brown			?
Diff statistics		URL to Project Dev branch Stable branch
dns_cache	None	JohnArbashMeinel		?	?
Cache DNS requests, greatly speeding up urllib.urlopen requests		URL to branch
email	None	RobertCollins		?	?
Send email after commit, e.g. to bazaar-commits mailing list		URL to branch
extcommand	None	Lukáš Lalinský		?	?
Support for calling bzr-CMD scripts or aliases involving external programs from within bzr.		URL to branch Source view
extmerge	None	ErikBågfors		?	?
Calls external merge tools to help resolve conflicts		https://launchpad.net/bzr-extmerge
file-revno	None	RobertWidhopf
Efficiently returns the revision number(s) modifying a file.		http://www.robf.de/Hacking/bazaar/bzr_file_revno
foreach	ezbzr	TimPowell		?
Iterates a command for each revno		https://launchpad.net/ezbzr/
graph-ancestry	BzrTools	AaronBentley			?
Draw diagrams of branch history		See BzrTools
grep	None	VincentLadeuil		?
Grep through files known to bzr (experimental)		http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~v-ladeuil/bzr/grep
hgrep	None	MichaelEllerman		?	?
Grep through history (experimental)		http://michael.ellerman.id.au/bzr/plugins/hgrep
network_manager	None	JelmerVernooij		X	X
Automatically use --local when network manager says connection is down.		http://people.samba.org/bzr/jelmer/bzr-nm/trunk
notification	None	JasonSmith		?	?
Send freedesktop.org notification dialogs when push or pull completes		Home page URL to branch
pack_indices	None	JohnArbashMeinel
Re-pack knit indices to give smaller downloads.		https://launchpad.net/bzr-pack-indices
publish-bot	None	ChristopherArmstrong
Publish commits to IRC		http://launchpad.net/publish-bot
quickbranch	None	KeirMierle		?	?
Make .bzrcache.gz of the .bzr directory at every commit (fast branching)		http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~keir/quickbranch/
recursive-upgrade	None	JelmerVernooij
Adds --recurse option to upgrade command		URL to branch
remove-revisions	None	JelmerVernooij			?
Completely remove revisions from a repository		URL to branch
rebase	None	JelmerVernooij		?	?
Rebase (like git-rebase)		URL to branch
repo-push	None	JamesHenstridge			?
Push a repository to a remote location, along with all its branches		https://launchpad.net/bzr-repo-push
repoalias	None	Marien Zwart
"repo:" shortcut for the repository root		https://launchpad.net/~marienz/+junk/repoalias
revnocache	None	IanClatworthy
Cache branch history for faster log and revno lookup		https://launchpad.net/bzr-revnocache
rspush	BzrTools	AaronBentley		-?	?
Push a branch via rsync		See BzrTools
rxrename	None	EduardoPadoan		?	?
Renames multiple files using a regexp		https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~eopadoan/bzr-rxrename/main
scmproj	None	AlexanderBelchenko, MariusKruger			?
Organizing set of VCS branches as united project (experimental unofficial emulation of nested trees)		https://launchpad.net/bzr-scmproj
service	None	JohnArbashMeinel		?	?
Keep bzrlib loaded in memory		http://bzr.arbash-meinel.com/plugins/
setuptoolsbzr	None	BarryWarsaw		?
Allows Python's setuptools package to grok Bazaar the same way it currently groks CVS and SVN. This is really a plugin for setuptools		https://launchpad.net/setuptoolsbzr http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/setuptoolsbzr
shelf1	BzrTools	MichaelEllerman			?
Temporarily set aside changes		See BzrTools (dev version at http://michael.ellerman.id.au/bzr/plugins/shelf)
shell-hooks	None	JelmerVernooij		?	?
Support for running external commands in hooks.		URL to branch
stats	None	JohnArbashMeinel
Show stats like authors or commits over time		URL to branch
testrunner	None	PaulHinze		?	?
"Poor man's PQM": specify a command that must succeed before a change is allowed in a branch		https://launchpad.net/bzr-testrunner
touch	None	BarryWarsaw		?
Like *nix touch(1) but for bzr		https://launchpad.net/bzr-touch
undelete	None	ParthMalwankar		?	?
Step through history and undelete to last known version of file(s)/dir(s). Allows searching history using regex for filename.		https://launchpad.net/bzr-undelete
update-mirrors	None	JohnArbashMeinel		?	?
Updates all the branches in a directory		URL to branch
upload	None	VincentLadeuil, MartinAlbisetti
Upload *just* the working tree, and keep track of what has been sent for incremental uploads. Mostly oriented towards web development.		https://launchpad.net/bzr-upload
win32symlinks	None	AlexanderBelchenko	X		X
Provide support for bzr internals for fake symlinks in cygwin format on win32 native.		https://launchpad.net/bzr-win32symlinks
x-bit	None	AlexanderBelchenko	?		?
Control x-bit inside of bzr inventory. Primarily intended to use on win32		https://launchpad.net/bzr-x-bit
usertest	None	IanClatworthy			?
Benchmark Bazaar on user provided source trees.		https://launchpad.net/bzr-usertest
vimdiff	None	MartinPool		?	?
Display differences between revisions of a file, using vimdiff		URL to branch
webdav	None	VincentLadeuil		?	?
Support writing to WebDAV branches		https://launchpad.net/bzr.webdav

Out of Date

These plugins are incompatible with recent releases of Bazaar, or the URL gives 404 error.

			Platform
Name	Part of	Owner	GNU/Linux	Windows	Mac
Description		Home
fileid	None	ThomasGerigk		?	?
Modifies file-ids according to a list		http://www.towerlin.de/BRANCHES/fileid/
graft	None	JamieWilkinson		?	?
Graft branches onto the end of others		http://repo.spacepants.org/bzr/plugins/graft/
release	ezbzr	NathanielMcCallum		?	?
Merges a local branch into a remote one		http://www.natemccallum.com/software/ezbzr/
reweave	None	MartinPool		?	?
Update history, inserting ghosts		Download
submit-by-mail	None	HermannKraus		?	?
Submit changes by email and verify senders identity through gpg before applying it.		URL to branch
tags	None	MichaelEllerman		?	?
Explicitly versioned tags.		http://michael.ellerman.id.au/bzr/plugins/tags

Obsolete

There are a number of obsolete plugins.

source: Bazaar.org

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