Ten reasons to switch to Bazaar

Ian Clatworthy ian.clatworthy at canonical.com
Thu Oct 22 15:05:11 BST 2009


Over the last few days, I've put together my view on why people, teams
and communities ought to switch to Bazaar. This is a tricky subject:
many people actively dislike "mine is bigger than yours" debates and
comparisons notoriously have a short shelf life. OTOH, we need a
document we can point people to when they ask the perfectly reasonable
question:

  Why should we use Bazaar instead of X?

See http://doc.bazaar-vcs.org/migration/en/why-switch-to-bazaar.html.

I've tried hard to keep it *relatively* balanced and I make a point of
explicitly referencing similar material for Mercurial and Git right up
front. It certainly isn't my intention to pretend other tools don't
exist, nor do I wish to present inaccurate information. If I've made any
mistakes, please let me know.

A few things:

* I'd like to delete the BzrVsSvn, BzrVsHg and BzrVsGit wiki pages and
  link to here instead. Any objections?

* I'd like to see this document translated to a few different
  languages. If you can help with that, the English source document is
  available from the "Show Source" link in the sidebar. Alternatively,
  grab the whole branch from lp:bzr-migration-docs.

This is now linked from our home page. I hope it proves useful for
advocates looking to champion Bazaar within their communities or companies.

Ian C.




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