What makes Bazaar ROCK?
Smart Merging
Merge knows and merges only what's missing.
Merge minimizes spurious conflicts.
Merge is not tricked by identical changes.
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
- Tracks renames of both files and directories.
- Uncommit!
- Supports Unicode filenames.
Branches are removable.
Great Docs and Support
Well organized website
Plenty of easy to find and read documentation
Active on-topic mailing lists
Well staffed IRC Channel
Integrates well
Many 3rdPartyTools to shape Bazaar-NG to your style
Is part of a dozen operating systems
- Supports unicode filenames
Great (optional) Launchpad Integration
Plugins to integrate with other VCS systems including Subversion
Tunable
- Set defaults for branches.
Change Behavior with easy to write Plugins.
Flexible
Dozens of plugins already available.
Multiple Platforms including GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, Windows.
Multiple development models supported.
Entirely Free Software
- Written in free software
- Is free software
- No dependencies upon non-free software.
Over 50 contributors. Here are some
Can be used to develop any software
For a bigger picture view, see Why Choose Bazaar?