Bazaar
Ranked 18 of 26 version control systems by recommenders
Recommended for an easy-to-use GNOME app store and a version control system whose merges work as expected; critics say it is slower than git and Canonical dropped it.
Recommended for an easy-to-use GNOME app store and a version control system whose merges work as expected; critics say it is slower than git and Canonical dropped it.
21 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 11
- criticize it
- 10
- approval share
- 52%
Recommended in 9 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 11 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 1.1 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 9 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Merges work as expected
“The default merge type from a branch should be a merge commit and git log should only show the first parent”
Comment from 26 Aug 2026 in “Maiao: Gerrit-style code review workflow for GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, others” “Bazaar (now breezy) allowed having a nested "merge commit"”
Comment from 9 Mar 2026 in “We should revisit literate programming in the agent era” “Whereas bzr just did the expected thing.”
Comment from 10 Mar 2026 in “We should revisit literate programming in the agent era” Easy to use and understand
“it had an easy way to plugin "revision" into my documents in a way I could understand”
Comment from 14 Apr 2026 in “What is jj and why should I care?” “moved to bazaar which was really easy and nice”
Comment from 29 Apr 2026 in “Before GitHub” Impressive, polished app store
“The included Bazaar app store is very impressive compared to something like the apple app store.”
Comment from 15 May 2026 in “I love Linux, but I can't quit Windows” “was surprised at the quality of some of the apps available on the Bazaar store”
Comment from 27 Oct 2026 in “Software may be getting worse, but it used to be horrible”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Slower than git
“while slower than git, was performant enough for my needs at the time I used it”
Comment from 5 Apr 2026 in “Shooting down ideas is not a skill” “it was noticeably slower than git, though”
Comment from 31 Jul 2026 in “Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub” “even the distributed ones like bzr or hg were slow as hell”
Comment from 19 Nov 2025 in “Blender 5.0” Flatpak only, little beyond existing stores
“I wouldn't call it an "app store" since it works with flatpak only.”
Comment from 30 Nov 2025 in “Bazaar: New App Store for Gnome” “Bazaar does not much at the moment beyond what Gnome Software or KDE's Discover is capable of.”
Comment from 4 Dec 2025 in “PR adding custom progress bar themes to GNOME Bazaar rejected, citing "racism"” Abandoned by Canonical
“Canonical pushed it for many years after git was obviously the better choice.”
Comment from 11 Apr 2026 in “What is RISC-V and why it matters to Canonical” “attempted to uproot for no purpose other than Canonical wanted more control”
Comment from 10 Apr 2026 in “What is RISC-V and why it matters to Canonical” “last release was 2016, Canonical retired it last year”
Comment from 14 Apr 2026 in “GitHub Stacked PRs” Odd sexual preference settings
“Sexual preferences in Bazaar options tool to update flatpaks seems out of place”
Comment from 11 Feb 2026 in “Bazzite Post-Mortem” “has sexual preference options which is always concerning to me”
Comment from 3 Feb 2026 in “Bazzite Postmortem”
Other version control systems people recommend
The four most recommended other version control systems, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Git | 814 | 503 | 62% | 13 | 15 yrs42 owners | — |
| Jujutsu (jj) | 335 | 106 | 76% | 13 | 1 yr21 owners | Approved |
| Mercurial | 121 | 43 | 74% | 12 | 19 yrs7 owners | Approved |
| jj (Jujutsu) | 115 | 37 | 76% | 12 | 1 yr7 owners | Approved |
| BazaarThis page | 11 | 10 | 52% | 9 | — | — |
What people said
23 of the 27 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“was surprised at the quality of some of the apps available on the Bazaar store”
“The default merge type from a branch should be a merge commit and git log should only show the first parent”
“it was noticeably slower than git, though”
“The included Bazaar app store is very impressive compared to something like the apple app store.”
“moved to bazaar which was really easy and nice”
“picked bazaar for my personal projects. that didn't last long lol”
“it had an easy way to plugin "revision" into my documents in a way I could understand”
“last release was 2016, Canonical retired it last year”
“Canonical pushed it for many years after git was obviously the better choice.”
“Bzr predates git (by a few days but still).”
“Not sure what they were trying to solve there with git and forges already existing.”
“attempted to uproot for no purpose other than Canonical wanted more control”
“while slower than git, was performant enough for my needs at the time I used it”
“Whereas bzr just did the expected thing.”
“Bazaar (now breezy) allowed having a nested "merge commit"”
“Sexual preferences in Bazaar options tool to update flatpaks seems out of place”
“There's also bazaar for gnome which offers similar things”
“had issues with Bazaar crashing”
“has sexual preference options which is always concerning to me”
“Bazaar does not much at the moment beyond what Gnome Software or KDE's Discover is capable of.”
“I wouldn't call it an "app store" since it works with flatpak only.”
“Wish it could have native package downloads/system updating.”
“even the distributed ones like bzr or hg were slow as hell”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.