Thank you, that's exactly the kind of thing I was hoping you would share. I wonder if you may be someone who used the software that was once also called "Bazaa

Thank you, that's exactly the kind of thing I was hoping you would share. I wonder if you may be someone who used the software that was once also called "Bazaar" but has since been renamed to Baz. It appears that the current incarnation of Bazaar did not so much start out as a fork of arch, but as a test-bed for features that would eventually make it back into Baz (which did start out as a fork of arch). Apparently everybody decided to just ditch the old codebase and work on the new one instead. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazaar_(software)#History http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazaar_(software)#History I like what I saw from looking yesterday. I especially like how it handles renames and how it treats directories as first-class objects in the repository. I'm also drawn to their concept of "bound branches", which I suspect would be essential in one particular instance of SVN that I'm keen to replace with something distributed but not totally anarchistic. I think I'm going to keep Mercurial for my own personal use, for the sole reason that you can get a free private repository at bitbucket.org, but not at launchpad.net or GitHub. If launchpad were to offer the same, that would probably tip the balance towards Bazaar for me.