Why replace CVS with Bazaar?

Note: As of January 2012, BZR/Launchpad info for eden is deprecated. Please visit the GitHub page. Thanks.

CVS is old technology which doesn't easily support merging (nor even folder renames)

Merging is a common requirement for Sahana where most development occurs in deployment branches & currently never makes it back to trunk.
It is also relevant to GSoC where merges are done in a very manual, painful process.

Using a Distributed Version Control System can be a great benefit for our Project:

• ​http://ianclatworthy.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/dvcs-why-and-how3.pdf
• ​http://www.robf.de/Hacking/bazaar/dvc-rules.html

Bzr is simple to use for people familiar with CVS (or SVN) & supports Launchpad:

• ​http://bazaar-vcs.org/BzrWhy
• ​http://versioncontrolblog.com/comparison/Bazaar/Git/Mercurial/index.html

Bzr is used by Web2Py:

• ​https://code.launchpad.net/~mdipierro/web2py/devel

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