Bazaar: Version Control System

There are numerous distributed Version Control systems nowadays. There are Git, Mercurial, and Bazaar.

From first impression, I like Bazaar, here’s why:

• It’s written in Python.
• Furthermore, because it is written in Python, installation is a breeze: `easy_install bzr`
• It has similar terminology to SVN. That means lower learning curve.
• Bazaar has really good storage compression. See the comparisons that others have done below.

Bit of History:

Martin Pool started Bazaar when he was just hired by Canonical, ltd.

 

List of Projects using Bazaar[link]:

Below is not the complete list, see link above for more.

• Bugzilla@Mozilla
• GNU Mailman
• MySQL
• Squid – Caching Proxy project. It caches frequently visited web pages.

Others have attempted to compare Bazaar vs Git:

• http://blog.jozilla.net/2006/03/03/bzr-versus-git/
• http://laserjock.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/git-and-bzr-historical-performance-comparison/

 

References:

• Bazaar Main Page
• John Arbash Meinel (Bazaar’s developer) blog
• Wikipedia – Bazaar
• Wikipedia – Git
• Wikipedia – Mercurial