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Overview

Using Launchpad, you can publish Bazaar branches of your code and, optionally, associate them with projects. You can also mirror or watch Bazaar branches that are hosted elsewhere on the internet and even import Subversion and CVS repositories into Bazaar branches.

Thousands of people have done that already, meaning that Launchpad has a huge directory of branches of code. Some people call it a code supermarket because it's so easy to browse and get hold of the code you want.

Over the next few pages, we'll look at:

• downloading and working with code that's hosted on Launchpad
• hosting your code on Launchpad
• working with a team on the same branch of code
• proposing code merges and conducting code reviews
• importing code from CVS and Subversion repositories

New to Bazaar or distributed version control?

If you're already familiar with Subversion or CVS, it's worth noting that Bazaar is a distributed version control system.

So, with Bazaar, your workflow no longer looks like this:

1. jump through hoops to get read/write permission for a central code repository
2. check code out of that central repository
3. hack, hack, hack
4. commit code back to the central repository

Instead, Bazaar lets anyone create their own branch - with full version control - of any other Bazaar branch. That gives everyone much more freedom and tears down the barriers to new and drive-by contributors.

gives everyone much more freedom because anyone can create their own branch of another Bazaar branch and w

checking code out of a central repository, making your changes on your local machine, and the committing your changes back to that central repository, you create

For an in-depth introduction to distributed version control, see:

• Bazaar in five minutes to learn the basics of Bazaar and get set up with it on your local machine

• and Ian Clatworthy's excellent Distributed version control systems - why and how (PDF).

Bazaar is a

You can also mirror or watch Bazaar branches published elsewhere on the internet and import Subversion and CVS repositories into Bazaar branches.

This means that it's supremely easy to find all the code associated with a project - even casual contributions -

You can use Launchpad, with the Bazaar version control system, to host branches of code and also to find and use branches of other people's code.

Launchpad works with the Bazaar version control system to provide a directory of and hosting service for free software code.

As an individual, you can use Launchpad and Bazaar to:

• publish, mirror and watch Bazaar branches
• associate your code branches with projects
• propose branch merges and take part in code review
• import Subversion and CVS repositories into a Bazaar branch hosted on Launchpad
• download your own version, with full revision control, of any branch of code that's tracked in Launchpad.

If you run a project,

• and optionally associate them with a project

• mirror or watch Bazaar branches published elsewhere on the internet
• download your own version, with full revision control, of any branch of code that's tracked in Launchpad
• import Subversion and CVS repositories into a Bazaar branch hosted on Launchpad.

Launchpad is both a directory of free software code and a code hosting service. Using the Bazaar version control system you can create your own branch of hundreds of free software projects and also

Using Launchpad, you can publish branches of your code and associate them with a project.

Launchpad's code hosting works closely with the Bazaar version control system to

With Launchpad, you can find source code for free software projects and also register your own branches of code to be tracked in Launchpad. Launchpad's code hosting

Launchpad's code directory - or supermarket -

Using Launchpad's code directory, you can find and host source code using the

Using Launchpad, you can host code

Launchpad has a code directory, or supermarket.

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