July 18, 2022

Just Enough Bazaar to Be Dangerous

Last year I wrote a blog post about how to migrate away from Bazaar, a distributed version control system, originally developed by Canonical, to git. While I still think this is the only way forward, here, at Canonical, working in the Launchpad team, we still have a couple of Bazaar repositories around, which cannot be easily migrated, as they are both integrated into deployment processes, and used by other teams....

November 5, 2021

Migrate a Repository From Bazaar to Git

Bazaar is a distributed version control system (VCS), developed by Canonical. For a long time, Bazaar was the only supported VCS on Launchpad. Launchpad is a code hosting platform, similar to the now prevalent GitHub, and while open to the public, nowadays it is mostly used by Canonical itself and many other individuals and companies to manage the whole lifecycle of creating packages for Ubuntu and its distributions. Since quite some time also git is a supported VCS on Launchpad....