Why Choose Bazaar?

There are many really good VCS tools around these days to choose from. We are proud of Bazaar's features but the top tools all have their unique strengths and weaknesses and have a lot in common. What is it that makes Bazaar unique? We hope the links below help answer that question.

The Big Picture

See http://ianclatworthy.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/dvcs-why-and-how3.pdf for an explanation of the compelling advantages of distributed VCS over central VCS. Advantages are given from multiple viewpoints: developers, release managers, (open source) communities and (commercial) senior managers.

Main Competitors

The following links present the main reasons for selecting Bazaar over alternative tools:

• Bazaar vs Subversion

• Bazaar vs Git

• Bazaar vs Mercurial.

Mark Shuttleworth on Bazaar

The following blog posts present some background on why Mark, as the CEO of Canonical, is sponsoring Bazaar:

• Renaming is the killer app of distributed version control

• Further thoughts on version control

• Choose lossless VCS tools if you have that luxury

• Merging is the key to software developer collaboration

Suggested Criteria for Evaluating VCS Tools

IanClatworthy is putting together a series of blog posts on why teams ought to look at Bazaar for the VCS needs. Each post looks at how well Bazaar meets his suggested evaluation criteria:

1. Wanted: Rock Solid Version Control - Reliability & Robustness

2. Version Control: The Future is Adaptive (the first post) - Workflow Flexibility, Scalability & Portability

3. It Takes a Community to Raise Great Software - Usability

4. Version Control: Plug-ins vs Toolkits - Extensibility

5. Version Control: Design for Integration - Integration

6. coming soon - Low Administration

Details Matter

There are lots of little things about Bazaar that users appreciate. Here are a sample:

• Version control that doesn’t make your eyes bleed

• The diff problem has been solved

• Distributed Revision Control And APIs

If you've never used (distributed) version control before, see Why Use Bazaar. If you have, check out the key features.