macOS
Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install breezylocal Homebrew formula metadata
MacPortsverified · 94%
sudo port install bzrMacPorts ports tree · devel/bzr/Portfile · source: api.github.com
brew
Install breezy with Homebrew, apk, apt, dnf, Nix, pacman, chocolatey, MacPorts
Version control system implemented in Python with multi-format support. Version 3.3.21 via Homebrew; verified 2026-05-30.
install
Additional install commands
Linux
Alpine Linux apkverified · 92%
sudo apk add breezyAlpine Linux edge package indexes · breezy · source: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org
Debian aptverified · 92%
sudo apt install brzDebian stable package indexes · brz · source: deb.debian.org
Fedora dnfverified · 92%
sudo dnf install breezyFedora Rawhide package metadata · breezy · source: dl.fedoraproject.org
Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#breezynixpkgs package indexes · breezy · source: raw.githubusercontent.com
Arch Linux pacmanverified · 92%
sudo pacman -S breezyArch Linux sync databases · breezy · source: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com
Windows
Chocolateyverified · 92%
choco install bzrChocolatey community package catalog · bzr · source: community.chocolatey.org
overview
Package summary
Version control system implemented in Python with multi-format support
Project links
Commands and aliases
- brz
- bzr
- bzr-receive-pack
- bzr-upload-pack
- git-remote-bzr
history
Project history and usage
Breezy, invoked as brz, is a decentralized revision-control system and a friendly fork of Bazaar. It preserves Bazaar disk-format and protocol compatibility while running on Python 3 and adding native support for both Bazaar and Git file formats.
Project history
The official README states that Breezy is a friendly fork of Bazaar, whose original project was hosted on Launchpad. It explicitly names Python 3 support as a key difference from Bazaar's Python 2 codebase.
The GitHub repository was created in May 2018, while the official documentation footer credits Breezy Developers from 2017-2018. That places the fork in the period when many Python projects were moving away from Python 2 and legacy Bazaar users still needed a maintained path.
Breezy kept the bzr command available while introducing brz, and its input package facts list executables for brz, bzr, Git remote helpers, and Bazaar smart-server helpers. That continuity is central to its history: it is both a successor and a compatibility bridge.
Adoption history
The input package facts show unusually broad package-manager coverage for a non-Git VCS: Alpine, Homebrew, Chocolatey, Debian, Fedora, MacPorts, Nix, Arch, and Ubuntu all carry Breezy or Bazaar-compatible packaging names.
Breezy's adoption comes from two overlapping audiences: existing Bazaar users who needed maintained tooling, and developers who wanted Bazaar's workflow with Git interoperability. Its official docs also link Launchpad support, Bazaar mailing-list continuity, and Breezy-specific Matrix support.
How it is used
The README describes Breezy as supporting both centralized workflows like CVS/Subversion and distributed workflows like Git/Mercurial, including checkouts, feature branches, and shared working trees.
The documentation set includes a user guide, tutorials, quick reference, release notes, upgrade guide, user reference, admin guide, migration docs, and plugin docs. The upgrade guide covers checking, reconciling, and upgrading branch formats, especially for larger communities and Launchpad-hosted branches.
Configuration and authentication are documented in Breezy's user reference. The curated paths for breezy.conf, locations.conf, branch.conf, and authentication.conf match that role as a full VCS with local, per-location, per-branch, and credential configuration.
Why package nerds care
Breezy is significant because it is the maintained package-manager path for Bazaar-era version-control workflows. It keeps old branch formats and protocols usable while making the tool viable on Python 3.
It also matters as a rare bridge VCS package: it is neither simply Git nor simply Bazaar. Package maintainers have to account for compatibility executables, Git helpers, Python dependencies, and distro naming differences such as brz versus bzr.
For history-minded users, Breezy shows how package ecosystems preserve tooling after a dominant upstream fades. A fork can become the practical continuation when distributions, users, and hosted services still depend on old formats.
Timeline
- 2017: Official documentation credits Breezy Developers beginning in 2017.
- 2018-05: The Breezy GitHub repository was created.
- 2018: The README identifies Breezy as a Python 3 friendly fork of Bazaar.
- 2020: Breezy 3.x documentation and release notes became the main user-facing documentation set.
- 2026: Official repository metadata showed active development continuing.
Related projects
- Bazaar is the direct predecessor and compatibility target named by the Breezy README.
- Git is a supported file format and interoperability target named by the README.
- Launchpad remains part of Breezy's support and migration story through docs, answers, bugs, and historical Bazaar hosting.
Sources
security posture
No protected-tool coverage found yet
No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for breezy. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.
Install behavior
- No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
- Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
- Installs with 2 runtime dependencies.
- Build metadata lists 2 build dependencies.
Recommended review
Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.
local files
Configuration and credential file locations
These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.
Configuration files
Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.
- Unix
~/.config/breezy/breezy.conf~/.config/breezy/locations.conf.bzr/branch/branch.conf
Credential files
Credential-bearing paths to review before unattended agent runs.
- Unix
~/.config/breezy/authentication.conf
executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
brz | cli | global executable | |
bzr | cli | global executable | |
bzr-receive-pack | cli | global executable | |
bzr-upload-pack | cli | global executable | |
git-remote-bzr | cli | global executable |
freshness
Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-07-08
manager version3.3.21
manager updated2026-05-30
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected
- infoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://www.breezy-vcs.org/none confidence
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:breezy |
|---|---|
| Version | 3.3.21 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Package manager page | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/breezy |
| Homepage | https://www.breezy-vcs.org/ |
| Repository | https://github.com/breezy-team/breezy |
| Upstream docs | https://www.breezy-vcs.org/doc/en |
| License | GPL-2.0-or-later |
| Source archive | https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/59/1d/68956e351c1af8116ec8525c85faf82ed2484f38f6f4fed4755759073500/breezy-3.3.21.tar.gz |
| Last updated | 2026-05-30T22:19:37Z |
| Pulse | updated |
| Dependencies | libyaml, python@3.14 |
| Build dependencies | gettext, rust |
| Bottle | available (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux) |
| Homebrew post-install | not defined |
| Service | none declared |
registry facts
Source database details
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | breezy |
| Aliases |
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| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 3 |
| Head Version | HEAD |
| Bottle Stable Root URL | https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core |
| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
| Keg Only | no |
| URL Keys |
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source database matches
Other package-manager records
Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.
Debian apt95%
brz 3.3.11-1
easy to use distributed version control system
sudo apt install brz- Section: vcs
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: breezy
- 5 dependencies
- 7 provides
- 5 optional deps
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Breezy
Debian apt95%
brz-doc 3.3.11-1
easy to use distributed version control system (documentation)
sudo apt install brz-doc- Section: doc
- Architecture: all
- Source Package: breezy
- 1 dependencies
- 1 optional deps
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Breezy
Debian apt95%
python3-breezy 3.3.11-1
distributed version control system - Python 3 library
sudo apt install python3-breezy- Section: python
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: breezy
- 11 dependencies
- 11 optional deps
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Breezy
Debian apt95%
python3-breezy.tests 3.3.11-1
distributed version control system - Python 3 testsuite
sudo apt install python3-breezy.tests- Section: python
- Architecture: all
- Source Package: breezy
- 4 dependencies
- 1 optional deps
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Breezy
Nix95%
breezy
nix profile install nixpkgs#breezy- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Breezy
Ubuntu apt95%
brz 3.3.5-6build2
easy to use distributed version control system
sudo apt install brz- Section: universe/vcs
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: breezy
- 5 dependencies
- 7 provides
- 5 optional deps
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Breezy
Ubuntu apt95%
brz-doc 3.3.5-6build2
easy to use distributed version control system (documentation)
sudo apt install brz-doc- Section: universe/doc
- Architecture: all
- Source Package: breezy
- 1 dependencies
- 1 optional deps
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Breezy
Ubuntu apt95%
python3-breezy 3.3.5-6build2
distributed version control system - Python 3 library
sudo apt install python3-breezy- Section: universe/python
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: breezy
- 11 dependencies
- 11 optional deps
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Breezy
Ubuntu apt95%
python3-breezy.tests 3.3.5-6build2
distributed version control system - Python 3 testsuite
sudo apt install python3-breezy.tests- Section: universe/python
- Architecture: all
- Source Package: breezy
- 4 dependencies
- 1 optional deps
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Breezy
apk95%
breezy 3.3.15-r3
Decentralized revision control system
sudo apk add breezy- License: GPL-2.0-or-later
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: breezy
- 1 dependencies
- 1 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Breezy
apk95%
breezy-lang 3.3.15-r3
Languages for package breezy
sudo apk add breezy-lang- License: GPL-2.0-or-later
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: breezy
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Breezy
apk95%
breezy-pyc 3.3.15-r3
Precompiled Python bytecode for breezy
sudo apk add breezy-pyc- License: GPL-2.0-or-later
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: breezy
- 1 dependencies
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Breezy
dnf95%
breezy 3.3.20-5.fc45
Friendly distributed version control system
sudo dnf install breezy- License: GPL-2.0-or-later AND (MIT OR Apache-2.0) AND Unicode-DFS-2016 AND MIT AND (Unlicense OR MIT)
- Category: Unspecified
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: breezy
- 8 dependencies
- 6 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Breezy
dnf95%
breezy+git 3.3.20-5.fc45
Metapackage for breezy: git extras
sudo dnf install breezy+git- License: GPL-2.0-or-later AND (MIT OR Apache-2.0) AND Unicode-DFS-2016 AND MIT AND (Unlicense OR MIT)
- Category: Unspecified
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: breezy
- 3 dependencies
- 3 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Breezy
dnf95%
breezy+launchpad 3.3.20-5.fc45
Metapackage for breezy: launchpad extras
sudo dnf install breezy+launchpad- License: GPL-2.0-or-later AND (MIT OR Apache-2.0) AND Unicode-DFS-2016 AND MIT AND (Unlicense OR MIT)
- Category: Unspecified
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: breezy
- 3 dependencies
- 3 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Breezy
dnf95%
breezy+paramiko 3.3.20-5.fc45
Metapackage for breezy: paramiko extras
sudo dnf install breezy+paramiko- License: GPL-2.0-or-later AND (MIT OR Apache-2.0) AND Unicode-DFS-2016 AND MIT AND (Unlicense OR MIT)
- Category: Unspecified
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: breezy
- 3 dependencies
- 3 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Breezy
source trail
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Used sources
- Geiger risk classifier
- Nucleus package database
- av.db category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- external package-manager database matches
- package relationship graph
- package version freshness
- package-page enrichment