Bazaar highlights

• Easy to use and intuitive.

  Only five commands are needed to do all basic operations, and all commands have documentation accessible via 'bzr help command'. Bazaar's interface is also easy to learn for CVS and Subversion users.

• Robust and reliable.

  Bazaar is developed under an extensive test suite. Branches can be checked and verified for integrity at any time, and revisions can be signed with PGP/GnuPG.

• Publish branches with HTTP.

  Branches can be hosted on an HTTP server with no need for special software on the server side. Branches can be uploaded by bzr itself over SSH (SFTP), or with rsync.

• Adapts to multiple environments.

  Bazaar runs on Linux and Windows, fully supports Unicode filenames, and suits different development models, including centralized.

• Easily extended and customized.

  A rich Python interface is provided for extending and embedding, including a plugin interface. There are already many available plugins, most of them registered at http://bazaar-vcs.org/PluginRegistry.

• Smart merging.

  Changes will never be merged more than once, conflicts will be minimized, and identical changes are dealt with well.

• Vibrant and active community.

  Help with Bazaar is obtained easily, via the mailing list, or the IRC channel.