Bazaar is a distributed versioning system.
Homepage: http://bazaar-vcs.org/
Tutorial: Bazaar in five minutes, Bazaar User Guide
Most used commands
Create local branch
bzr init
bzr add file1 file2 fileN
bzr commit -m "Initial import"
Create local repo
bzr init-repo
bzr init trunk
bzr init branches
bzr init tags
Copy remote repo
bzr branch bzr://path/to/repo
This copies the branch to your local directory. The two repos are still independent.
Convert to checkout
bzr bind bzr://path/to/repo
Connects to that repository so commits are always made on both repos unless the --local
parameter is given. Local commits can be merged later by bzr update
followed by bzr commit
. unbind
removes the connection with the parent repo.
Import SVN dump file
To import a Subversion dump, use svn2bzr.py (or at LaunchPad).
You will mostly just convert the dumpfile to a big bzr-repo:
svn2bzr.py svn.dump bzr/
You can then push the repo to the central repo by issuing
bzr push bzr/ bzr://path/to/central/repo