Why Choose Bazaar?

Here's why we think Bazaar is the best choice for many people ...

Like to know more about the thinking behind Bazaar's design? Read on ...

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

• Good architectural layering, and Bzr 1.1

Suggested Criteria for Evaluating VCS Tools

The following blog posts by IanClatworthy outline his thoughts on various VCS-related topics:

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

Details Matter

Sometimes little things make users to appreciate Bazaar. Here are a sample:

• Version control that doesn’t make your eyes bleed

• The diff problem has been solved

• Distributed Revision Control And APIs

Old comparisons

These links are out of date (and probably need deleting or heavy editing):

• Bazaar vs Subversion

• Bazaar vs Git

• Bazaar vs Mercurial.