<s>
GNU	B-Protocol
Bazaar	I-Protocol
(	O
formerly	O
Bazaar-NG	B-Protocol
,	O
command	O
line	O
tool	O
bzr	B-Protocol
)	O
is	O
a	O
distributed	B-Protocol
and	O
client	B-Operating_System
–	I-Operating_System
server	I-Operating_System
revision	B-Architecture
control	I-Architecture
system	I-Architecture
sponsored	O
by	O
Canonical	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Bazaar	B-Protocol
can	O
be	O
used	O
by	O
a	O
single	O
developer	O
working	O
on	O
multiple	O
branches	B-General_Concept
of	O
local	O
content	O
,	O
or	O
by	O
teams	O
collaborating	O
across	O
a	O
network	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Bazaar	B-Protocol
is	O
written	O
in	O
the	O
Python	B-Language
programming	I-Language
language	I-Language
,	O
with	O
packages	O
for	O
major	O
Linux	B-Application
distributions	O
,	O
and	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Windows	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Bazaar	B-Protocol
is	O
free	O
software	O
and	O
part	O
of	O
the	B-Application
GNU	I-Application
Project	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Bazaar	B-Protocol
commands	O
are	O
similar	O
to	O
those	O
found	O
in	O
CVS	B-Application
or	O
Subversion	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
new	O
project	O
can	O
be	O
started	O
and	O
maintained	O
without	O
a	O
remote	O
repository	O
server	O
by	O
invoking	O
bzr	B-Protocol
init	O
in	O
a	O
directory	O
which	O
a	O
person	O
wishes	O
to	O
version	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
contrast	O
to	O
purely	O
distributed	B-Protocol
version	I-Protocol
control	I-Protocol
systems	I-Protocol
which	O
do	O
not	O
use	O
a	O
central	O
server	O
,	O
Bazaar	B-Protocol
supports	O
working	O
with	O
or	O
without	O
a	O
central	O
server	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
websites	O
Launchpad	B-Protocol
and	O
SourceForge	B-Application
provide	O
free	O
hosting	O
service	O
for	O
projects	O
managed	O
with	O
Bazaar	B-Protocol
.	O
</s>
<s>
Bazaar	B-Protocol
has	O
support	O
for	O
working	O
with	O
some	O
other	O
revision	B-Architecture
control	I-Architecture
systems	I-Architecture
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
allows	O
users	O
to	O
branch	O
from	O
another	O
system	O
(	O
such	O
as	O
Subversion	B-Application
)	O
,	O
make	O
local	O
changes	O
and	O
commit	O
them	O
into	O
a	O
Bazaar	B-Protocol
branch	O
,	O
and	O
then	O
later	O
merge	O
them	O
back	O
into	O
the	O
other	O
system	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Read-only	O
access	O
is	O
also	O
available	O
for	O
Git	B-Application
and	O
Mercurial	B-Protocol
.	O
</s>
<s>
Bazaar	B-Protocol
also	O
allows	O
for	O
interoperation	O
with	O
many	O
other	O
systems	O
(	O
including	O
CVS	B-Application
,	O
Darcs	B-Protocol
,	O
Git	B-Application
,	O
Perforce	B-General_Concept
,	O
Mercurial	B-Protocol
)	O
by	O
allowing	O
one	O
to	O
import/export	O
the	O
history	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Bazaar	B-Protocol
supports	O
files	O
with	O
names	O
from	O
the	O
complete	O
Unicode	O
set	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
name	O
"	O
Bazaar	B-Protocol
"	O
was	O
originally	O
used	O
by	O
a	O
fork	B-Application
of	O
the	O
GNU	B-Protocol
arch	I-Protocol
client	O
tla	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
fork	B-Application
is	O
called	O
Baz	O
to	O
distinguish	O
it	O
from	O
the	O
current	O
Bazaar	B-Protocol
software	I-Protocol
.	O
</s>
<s>
Baz	O
was	O
announced	O
in	O
October	O
2004	O
by	O
Canonical	O
employee	O
Robert	O
Collins	O
and	O
maintained	O
until	O
2005	O
,	O
when	O
the	O
project	O
then	O
called	O
Bazaar-NG	B-Protocol
(	O
the	O
present	O
Bazaar	B-Protocol
)	O
was	O
announced	O
as	O
Baz	O
's	O
successor	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
February	O
2005	O
,	O
Martin	O
Pool	O
,	O
a	O
developer	O
who	O
had	O
previously	O
described	O
and	O
reviewed	O
a	O
number	O
of	O
revision	B-Architecture
control	I-Architecture
systems	I-Architecture
in	O
talks	O
and	O
in	O
his	O
weblog	O
,	O
announced	O
that	O
he	O
had	O
been	O
hired	O
by	O
Canonical	O
and	O
tasked	O
with	O
"build[ing]	O
a	O
distributed	B-Protocol
version-control	B-Architecture
system	O
that	O
open-source	O
hackers	O
will	O
love	O
to	O
use.	O
"	O
</s>
<s>
Bazaar	B-Protocol
was	O
conceived	O
from	O
the	O
start	O
as	O
a	O
different	O
piece	O
of	O
software	O
from	O
both	O
GNU	B-Protocol
arch	I-Protocol
and	O
Baz	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Bazaar	B-Protocol
was	O
originally	O
intended	O
as	O
a	O
test-bed	O
for	O
features	O
to	O
be	O
later	O
integrated	O
into	O
Baz	O
,	O
but	O
by	O
mid-2005	O
many	O
of	O
the	O
major	O
Baz	O
developers	O
had	O
begun	O
working	O
primarily	O
on	O
Bazaar	B-Protocol
directly	O
and	O
Baz	O
was	O
abandoned	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Version	O
1.0	O
of	O
Bazaar	B-Protocol
was	O
released	O
in	O
December	O
2007	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
February	O
2008	O
,	O
Bazaar	B-Protocol
became	O
a	O
GNU	B-Application
Project	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
According	O
to	O
Jelmer	O
Vernooij	O
the	O
members	O
of	O
Canonical	O
's	O
Bazaar	B-Protocol
team	O
were	O
assigned	O
to	O
different	O
tasks	O
in	O
early	O
2012	O
and	O
he	O
himself	O
stepped	O
down	O
from	O
contributing	O
to	O
Bazaar	B-Protocol
at	O
the	O
end	O
of	O
2012	O
,	O
after	O
7years	O
of	O
contributing	O
to	O
the	O
project	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
March	O
2013	O
a	O
discussion	O
on	O
the	O
GNU	B-Application
Emacs	I-Application
mailing	O
list	O
started	O
about	O
whether	O
Bazaar	B-Protocol
is	O
still	O
effectively	O
maintained	O
and	O
if	O
Emacs	O
should	O
move	O
to	O
another	O
version	B-Architecture
control	I-Architecture
system	I-Architecture
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
January	O
2014	O
Eric	O
Raymond	O
proposed	O
and	O
coordinated	O
a	O
transition	O
of	O
GNU	B-Application
Emacs	I-Application
from	O
Bazaar	B-Protocol
to	O
the	O
git	B-Application
version	I-Application
control	I-Application
system	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Likewise	O
,	O
the	O
Bugzilla	B-Application
project	O
retired	O
Bazaar	B-Protocol
in	O
favor	O
of	O
git	B-Application
in	O
March	O
2014	O
for	O
multiple	O
reasons	O
,	O
one	O
of	O
them	O
being	O
the	O
impression	O
that	O
Bazaar	B-Protocol
was	O
almost	O
dead	O
:	O
"	O
There	O
are	O
maybe	O
2-3	O
commits	O
to	O
trunk	O
every	O
month	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
time	O
to	O
fix	O
bugs	O
in	O
Bazaar	B-Protocol
also	O
seems	O
to	O
be	O
quite	O
long	O
,	O
generally.	O
"	O
</s>
<s>
Bazaar	B-Protocol
was	O
forked	O
as	O
Breezy	B-Protocol
in	O
2017	O
to	O
allow	O
backwards-incompatible	O
changes	O
to	O
be	O
made	O
,	O
such	O
as	O
migrating	O
from	O
Python	B-Language
2	O
to	O
Python	B-Language
3	O
and	O
dropping	O
support	O
for	O
older	O
versions	O
of	O
Windows	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
following	O
websites	O
provide	O
free	O
source	O
code	O
hosting	O
for	O
Bazaar	B-Protocol
repositories	O
:	O
</s>
<s>
Prominent	O
projects	O
that	O
have	O
used	O
Bazaar	B-Protocol
for	O
version	B-Architecture
control	I-Architecture
include	O
:	O
</s>
