How to work with bazaar through the GUI on Windows

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Alternative: use Bazaar from the command line

If the GUI is not your prefered way of doing things, please see How to work with bazaar on the command line

Download Bazaar for Windows

You find the downloads for Bazaar for Windows here: http://wiki.bazaar.canonical.com/WindowsDownloads

We currently recommend to use the Standalone 2.2 Stable Release. This includes the core Bazaar distribution and several GUIs for Bazaar.

We have noticed that the german translation is not complete at all, and on German Windows systems the GUI is quite mixed up with several languages. Solution: delete all but the en locale directory from C:\Program Files\Bazaar\locale.

See also Visual Tour of Bazaar Explorer on Windows.

Setup your environment

Start Bazaar Explorer from the Start menu.

First screen of Bazaar Explorer

Go to Settings|Configuration|User Configuration to set your user name and email address:

User Configuration of Bazaar Explorer

If you prefer to use WinMerge for showing the diff of files, you can configure it in the same window as well:

Configure WinMerge

Now you should configure a directory where you will store all your branches. Go to "Start a new project", and click on "Initialize". Make sure to select the options "Shared repository" and "Branches in the repository will default to not having a working tree".

I have chosen the directory <My Documents>/openpetra/bzr/

Initialize Project Directory

You might be asked, if you want to create a new "hat". Just say yes. An explanation can be found here: http://wiki.bazaar.canonical.com/BzrExplorer#hats

Get the files

You can now download the trunk into your own directory, by selecting in the menu Bazaar | Start | Checkout.

Checkout trunk

As a developer with ssh permissions for the repository, use this source URL: 

bzr+ssh://bazaar@bzr.openpetra.org:2208/openpetra/trunk

Important for developers with ssh permissions: make sure you have started pageant with your private key, otherwise your connection to the bazaar server will fail.

For anonymous access, use 

http://bzr.openpetra.org:8008/openpetra/trunk

The destination for the checked out trunk would be in my case: 

<My Documents>/openpetra/bzr/trunk

After the checkout has finished, click on Refresh in the Bazaar Explorer, and then double-click trunk to get to this screen:

Explore trunk

This screen gives you access to operations like:

  • Add: add new files
  • Rename: rename files in the working tree control
  • Commit: commit local changes to the repository
Commit

Create a working branch

<My Documents>/openpetra/bzr/dev_0000166_my_feature

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