GNU Bazaar

Introduction

GNU Bazaar (formerly Bazaar-NG, command line tool bzr) is a distributed revision control system sponsored by Canonical.

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, with packages for major GNU/Linux distributions, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. Bazaar is free software and part of the GNU Project.

Usage

Compute Systems Invocation Version(s)
Red Hat Linux (64-bit) % /util/bin/bzr 2.5.1 (default)

Notes

  1. If you get this error:
    
    /util/bin/python: error while loading shared libraries: libpython2.7.so.1.0: cannot open shared object
    file: No such file or directory
    
    

    ... add /util/lib to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable:

    
    % setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH ${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:/util/lib
    
    
  2. Useful commands:
    
    % bzr help
    % bzr help commands
    % bzr version
    
    

References

  1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Bazaar
  2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_revision_control_software
  3. http://bazaar.canonical.com/en/