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Bazaar is a free distributed version control system (DVCS).

Bazaar is a free distributed version control system that helps you track project history over time and to collaborate easily with others. Whether you're a single developer, a co-located team or a community of developers scattered across the world, Bazaar scales and adapts to meet your needs. Part of the GNU Project, Bazaar is free software sponsored by Canonical.

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Bzr: Create a shared repository from an existing stand-alone repository

I have been using Bzr for version control of my project over the last few months. I am the sole developer, and currently I just have everything in a single local project directory, to which I commit and which I sync to DriveHQ. I now have some…
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git tool comparable to bzr qlog

For the purpose of code review I got quite used to using the bzr qlog command to visually review the changes between two commits. I am now starting to use git and am looking for the equivalent. The three primary features I want are: visual…
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What are your coolest/most unusual hacks using a distributed version control system?

I have been working with git for a few months and I find that most of the things that have transformed my everyday work for the better can be attributed to the flexibility and lack of enforced default policy in a distributed VCS. Quite a few people…
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How can I do a merge in Bazaar (bzr merge) that ignores whitespace?

As our team and codebase continue to get bigger, we're seeing more and more cases where Bazaar insists there's a conflict during a merge operation, but in reality it's just a minor whitespace change - which we'd like it to silently ignore. bzr diff…
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How can I provide a 2-way mirror of a Git repository with another SCM? (bzr, hg etc)

For the last 6 months or so I've been using a 2-way Git mirror of our main Perforce repository at work to evaluate it for our workflow. I have to say I've fallen in love with using it but it has had one fatal flaw for me so far: it's Windows…
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How to migrate from Subversion to Mercurial when the trunk/branch/tag structure is a mess?

I'd like to convert a repository from Subversion to Mercurial, but when I initially set up the repository, I did it in the laziest way possible. Over time, the structure continued to morph and deteriorate (it's 5 years old at this point). …
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Getting all bazaar (bzr) branch list with bzr command

Is there any way to get all bazaar branches from remote shared repository? I found it can be with Bazaar Explorer, but could not find which be with bzr command. In Git: git branches -r. In Subversion, svn ls /branches. How about…
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Recommendation for code hosting of personal projects

I tired my hands on bazaar(launchpad), for the reason that i can host my project at launchpad, and bazaar (my local machine) would be tightly integrated with launchpad. I have posted my question at launchpad forum, and have not got any answer.…
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multiple source code repositories

I use Mercurial for version controlling my source code. But some people prefer other version control systems (like git, Bazaar, SVN, CVS). I would like to know, is it possible to store a repository under multiple systems at once, so people can use…
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Avoid pushing unwanted local history to main repository in Bazaar or Mercurial

I'm new to DVCS so I'm probably misunderstanding some concepts and terminology, but this is the idea of what I'm trying to achieve, and I'm trying to find out if either Bazaar or Mercurial supports this in a straightforward manner: There is main…
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How significant is the bazaar performance factor?

I hear all this stuff about bazaar being slower than git. I haven't used too much distributed version control yet, but in Bazaar vs. Git on the bazaar site, they say that most complaints about performance aren't true anymore. Have you found this…
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Git history visualizer GUI that can hide branches?

I started out learning DVCS with bazaar due to its newbie-friendliness, and have recently moved to git for my daily work due to its speed. The one thing I miss from bazaar is the bzr qlog dialog, that lets you hide or show lines of development by…
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How check incoming changes with Bazaar?

With Mercurial I do: $ hg in With SVN I do: $ svn log -r BASE:HEAD How do this with Bazaar?
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Migrating from bazaar to mercurial?

I have a small project which I started in bazaar, as an exercise to learn bzr. I've since decided I prefer Mercurial. How might I migrate this project to Hg?
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delete file history with bazaar

Someone committed all binaries to our bazaar trunk, and I want to get rid of it. `bzr del file' only deletes the file from the current revision, but not the history of the file. Is there a way we can remove the file history so that we don't all have…
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