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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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examining history of deleted file

If I delete a file in Subversion, how can I look at it's history and contents? If I try to do svn cat or svn log on a nonexistent file, it complains that the file doesn't exist. Also, if I wanted to resurrect the file, should I just svn add it…
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How to attribute a single commit to multiple developers?

The way all version control systems I'm familiar with work is that each commit is attributed to a single developer. The rise of Agile Engineering, and specifically pair programming, has lead to a situation where two developers have made a…
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What are the relative strengths and weaknesses of Git, Mercurial, and Bazaar?

What do folks here see as the relative strengths and weaknesses of Git, Mercurial, and Bazaar? In considering each of them with one another and against version control systems like SVN and Perforce, what issues should be considered? In planning a…
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Go back to old revision in Bazaar

I want to go back in my bazaar history (change working tree) to find the commit that introduced a certain bug. I do not want to delete any commits, just change my working tree until I found the bug, and then I want to go back to the latest revision…
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How to list versioned files in git?

I would like to list the versioned files in the root directory of a git repository. To do the same thing in bazaar, you run: bzr ls --versioned --non-recursive How do I do this in git?
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Should I look at version control systems beyond Subversion?

Within the last year I have become addicted to subversion. I am an only developer and I also work on a few of my own projects. With SVN its really easy to manage everything - and because it is hosted on an online server though HTTPS I can access my…
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Should checkins be small steps or complete features?

Two uses of version control seem to dictate different checkin styles. distribution centric: changesets will generally reflect a complete feature. In general these checkins will be larger. This style is more user/maintainer friendly. rollback…
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How can I mirror a project hosted on launchpad on github?

I want to contribute actively to a project that is hosted on Launchpad. I'm much more comfortable with GitHub, and would like to continue to use it if possible. Would I be able to mirror the bzr repository on github? If it's possible, how could I…
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What DVCS support Unicode filenames?

I'm interested in trying out distributed version control systems. git sounds promising, but I saw a note somewhere for the Windows port of git that says "don't use non-ASCII filenames". I can't find that now, but there is this link. It's put me off…
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Is there git blame gui similar to bzr qannotate?

As a former bzr user and novice to git I'm trying to find good GUI tool for git blame similar to bzr qannotate. The latter has 2 major views: file content viewer with short annotate information (who, in which revision changed the line) + coloring…
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Why to use SVN? Any hidden pros (over GIT/Mercurial/Bazaar) there?

Possible Duplicates: Why is git better than Subversion? I've already read a lot (not enough to get the perfect picture though) about versioning systems, and the obvious conclusion is that GIT is simply the best. Or Bazaar maybe. Or Mercurial. But…
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Is it easier to manage code with Git or Bazaar?

I'm researching the Git and Bazaar capabilities and wonder which one has more feature-rich code management?
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Is there a Bazaar equivalent to `git commit --amend`?

I'm playing around with Launchpad projects using Bazaar and getting along fairly well. However, coming from a Git background I'm really missing the ability to roll changes into the last commit---this happens frequently when I discover a small,…
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Is it possible to do a partial clone/branch with either bazaar, mercurial or git?

Suppose I have a project in source control with a lot of subdirectories, many of which I don't need at the moment. I would like to create a working copy containing only some of the entire tree, which still maintaining the ability to make changes,…
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What is the state of Bazaar version control?

I am looking to start a project with distributed source control and am evaluating the different options. Looking at Bazaar, I stumbled over several articles (e.g. this) that development has slowed down significantly. What is the status of the…
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