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Overview
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Launchpad and Bazaar give you access to thousands of branches of code. With just a few keystrokes, you can download the code from any of the projects that has code registered in Launchpad.
So, what does it mean to have code registered in Launchpad? Well, it can be one of four things:
- code in a Bazaar branch that's hosted directly by Launchpad
- a Bazaar branch that's hosted elsewhere and mirrored by Launchpad
- a Bazaar branch that's hosted elsewhere and monitored by Launchpad
- a Subversion or CVS repository that's imported into a Bazaar branch hosted by Launchpad.
If all you want is to get hold of that code, you don't need to worry about its exact relationship with Launchpad because Launchpad sorts all that out for you.
More than one branch for each project
Most projects have more than one line of development, such as
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