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README for Bazaar
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Bazaar (``bzr``) is a decentralized revision control system, designed to be
easy for developers and end users alike.  Bazaar is part of the GNU project to
develop a complete free operating system <http://www.gnu.org/>, and a project
of Canonical <http://www.canonical.com/>.

Ready-to-install packages are available for most popular operating systems from
<http://wiki.bazaar.canonical.com/Download/> or you can install from source by
following the instructions in the INSTALL file.

To learn how to use Bazaar, see the official documentation in the `doc`
directory or at <http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/en/>.

For additional training materials including screencasts and slides,
visit our community wiki documentation page at:

    http://wiki.bazaar.canonical.com/Documentation/

Bazaar is Free Software, and is released under the GNU General Public License,
version 2 or later.

Bazaar highlights
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Bazaar directly supports both central version control (like cvs/svn) and
distributed version control (like git/hg). Developers can organize their
workspace in whichever way they want on a per project basis including:

* checkouts (like svn)
* feature branches (like hg)
* shared working tree (like git).

It also directly supports and encourages a large number of development best
practices like refactoring and pre-commit regression testing. Users can
choose between our command line tool and our cross-platform GUI application.
For further details, see our website at http://bazaar.canonical.com/en/

Feedback
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If you encounter any problems with Bazaar, need help understanding it, or would
like to offer suggestions or feedback, please get in touch with us:

* Ask a question through our web support interface, at 
  https://answers.launchpad.net/bzr/

* Report bugs at https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+filebug

* Write to us at bazaar@lists.canonical.com 
  You can join the list at <https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/bazaar>.
  You don't need to subscribe to post, but your first post will be held 
  briefly for manual moderation.

* Talk to us in irc://irc.ubuntu.com/bzr

Our mission is to make a version control tool that developers LOVE to use
and that casual contributors feel confident with. Please let us know how
we're going.

The Bazaar Team
