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Overview

Thanks to Bazaar's distributed model, you can get full access to the code of any branch hosted in Launchpad, with version control and history, right on your own machine.

That flexibility means you can start work on a project without having to get special permissions to commit code. Of course, if you make changes that you want to see integrated in the project's main line, you need a way of telling the main line's owner that you want to merge your code back in.

Launchpad and Bazaar make that easy. Bazaar was made to merge: even complex merges are hassle-free. Launchpad helps look after the community process around whether a proposed merge is a good idea.

The first step is to make your merge proposal public.

Proposing a merge

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With Bazaar, each developer working on a project can one or more branches of the project's code. Many developers choose to work on a specific branch have their own branch where they work

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