I loved bzr and I still think it should had become the current default vcs. The killer feature of bzr for me is that it is just a nice interface in front of a

I loved bzr and I still think it should had become the current default vcs. The killer feature of bzr for me is that it is just a nice interface in front of a dozen different VCS data structures. Some of these were worse than the only one supported by git, others were much better. What made me switch from bzr to git around 2011 is: * slowness compared to git. I have `git status` in my command prompt, it takes a split second. I could not have `bzr status` in my command prompt: it took it about 2 seconds for it to complete. This is mostly due to it being written in Python: the startup time is just too big. * inability to rewrite history. bzr almost forces you to see "how the sausages are done". There are many pros to this approach, but I could not stand having to go through a complex pipeline system just to fix a typo in a certain commit message or reorder two completely independent commits. I moved to git after the first time I run `git rebase -i`. * The horrible Canonical appropriation. I was fine with the CLA imposed by Canonical on bzr but I could not stand the announcement that bzr was moving from http://bazaar-vcs.org/ http://bazaar-vcs.org/ to http://bazaar.canonical.com/ http://bazaar.canonical.com/ [1]. The move itself was unpleasant but the following quote really got on my nerves: > Canonical wants to more clearly show its support for Bazaar, while still recognizing that Bazaar is more than just Canonical and has its own community. The way you recognize Bazaar is more than just Canonical is to move from a generic domain to canonical.com subdomain? OK, bye. [1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/bazaar/2009q4/063183.html https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/bazaar/2009q4/063183.html