GNU Bazaar (formerly Bazaar-NG, command line tool
bzr) is a
distributed Distribution may refer to:
Mathematics
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and
client–server revision control
Version control (also known as revision control, source control, and source code management) is the software engineering practice of controlling, organizing, and tracking different versions in history of computer files; primarily source code ...
system sponsored by
Canonical
The adjective canonical is applied in many contexts to mean 'according to the canon' the standard, rule or primary source that is accepted as authoritative for the body of knowledge or literature in that context. In mathematics, ''canonical exampl ...
.
Bazaar can be used by a single developer working on multiple
branches of local content, or by teams collaborating across a network.
Bazaar is written in the
Python programming language
Python is a high-level, general-purpose programming language. Its design philosophy emphasizes code readability with the use of significant indentation.
Python is dynamically type-checked and garbage-collected. It supports multiple prog ...
, with packages for major
Linux
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distributions, and
Microsoft Windows
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. Bazaar is free software and in 2008 became part of the
GNU Project
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.
It was used by Canonical for their Launchpad code hosting website. The last release was in 2016. In 2025 Canonical announced the retirement of Bazaar.
is a fork of Bazaar.
See also
*
Breezy
*
Distributed version control
In software development, distributed version control (also known as distributed revision control) is a form of version control in which the complete codebase, including its full history, is mirrored on every developer's computer. Compared to centr ...
*
Comparison of version-control software
The following tables describe attributes of notable version control and software configuration management (SCM) systems that can be used to compare and contrast the various systems.
For SCM software not suitable for source code, see Comparis ...
*
Comparison of source-code-hosting facilities
A source-code-hosting facility (also known as forge software) is a file archive and web hosting facility for source code of software, documentation, web pages, and other works, accessible either publicly or privately. They are often used by open- ...
* ''
The Cathedral and the Bazaar
''The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary'' (abbreviated ''CatB'') is an essay, and later a book, by Eric S. Raymond on software engineering methods, based on his observations of the Linux ...
'' (source of the name)
References
External links
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Canonical (company)
Distributed version control systems
Free software programmed in Python
Free version control software
GNU Project software
Python (programming language) software
Version control systems