# 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 ```sh sudo av install brew:breezy ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install breezy ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata - MacPorts (94%): ```sh sudo port install bzr ``` Evidence: MacPorts ports tree: devel/bzr/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ### Linux - apk (92%): ```sh sudo apk add breezy ``` Evidence: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: breezy from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz - Debian apt (92%): ```sh sudo apt install brz ``` Evidence: Debian stable package indexes: brz from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz - dnf (92%): ```sh sudo dnf install breezy ``` Evidence: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: breezy from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#breezy ``` Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: breezy from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/master/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix - pacman (92%): ```sh sudo pacman -S breezy ``` Evidence: Arch Linux sync databases: breezy from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz ### Windows - Chocolatey (92%): ```sh choco install bzr ``` Evidence: Chocolatey community package catalog: bzr from http://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/Packages?$filter=IsLatestVersion&$select=Id&$top=1000&$skiptoken='11','bluejeansapp' ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:breezy - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Package manager page:** - **Version:** 3.3.21 - **Source summary:** Version control system implemented in Python with multi-format support - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream docs:** - **License:** GPL-2.0-or-later - **Source archive:** - **Last updated:** 2026-05-30T22:19:37Z - **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00 ## Executables - brz (cli) - bzr (cli) - bzr-receive-pack (cli) - bzr-upload-pack (cli) - git-remote-bzr (cli) - brz (alias) - bzr (alias) - bzr-receive-pack (alias) - bzr-upload-pack (alias) - git-remote-bzr (alias) ## Dependencies - libyaml - python@3.14 ## Build dependencies - gettext - rust ## Install behavior - Post-install hook: not defined - Bottle: available on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-07-08 - Package-manager version: 3.3.21 - Package-manager updated: 2026-05-30 - Local data: ok - Upstream repository: https://www.breezy-vcs.org/ - info: Release/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories. ## 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 - - - - - - source_facts.package-manager ## Security Notes 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. ## 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 - Unix: ~/.config/breezy/breezy.conf, ~/.config/breezy/locations.conf, .bzr/branch/branch.conf ## Credential files - Unix: ~/.config/breezy/authentication.conf ## Source Database Details - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** breezy - **Aliases:** brz - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 3 - **Head Version:** HEAD - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** head, stable ## Other Package-Manager Records - Debian apt - brz - 3.3.11-1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: brz from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | easy to use distributed version control system | https://www.breezy-vcs.org/ - Debian apt - brz-doc - 3.3.11-1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: brz-doc from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | easy to use distributed version control system (documentation) | https://www.breezy-vcs.org/ - Debian apt - python3-breezy - 3.3.11-1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: python3-breezy from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | distributed version control system - Python 3 library | https://www.breezy-vcs.org/ - Debian apt - python3-breezy.tests - 3.3.11-1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: python3-breezy.tests from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | distributed version control system - Python 3 testsuite | https://www.breezy-vcs.org/ - Nix - breezy: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: breezy from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/master/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix - Ubuntu apt - brz - 3.3.5-6build2: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: brz from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | easy to use distributed version control system | https://www.breezy-vcs.org/ - Ubuntu apt - brz-doc - 3.3.5-6build2: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: brz-doc from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | easy to use distributed version control system (documentation) | https://www.breezy-vcs.org/ - Ubuntu apt - python3-breezy - 3.3.5-6build2: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: python3-breezy from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | distributed version control system - Python 3 library | https://www.breezy-vcs.org/ - Ubuntu apt - python3-breezy.tests - 3.3.5-6build2: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: python3-breezy.tests from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | distributed version control system - Python 3 testsuite | https://www.breezy-vcs.org/ - apk - breezy - 3.3.15-r3: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: breezy from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Decentralized revision control system | https://www.breezy-vcs.org/ - apk - breezy-lang - 3.3.15-r3: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: breezy-lang from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Languages for package breezy | https://www.breezy-vcs.org/ - apk - breezy-pyc - 3.3.15-r3: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: breezy-pyc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Precompiled Python bytecode for breezy | https://www.breezy-vcs.org/ - dnf - breezy - 3.3.20-5.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: breezy from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Friendly distributed version control system | http://www.breezy-vcs.org/ - dnf - breezy+git - 3.3.20-5.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: breezy+git from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Metapackage for breezy: git extras | http://www.breezy-vcs.org/ - dnf - breezy+launchpad - 3.3.20-5.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: breezy+launchpad from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Metapackage for breezy: launchpad extras | http://www.breezy-vcs.org/ - dnf - breezy+paramiko - 3.3.20-5.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: breezy+paramiko from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Metapackage for breezy: paramiko extras | http://www.breezy-vcs.org/ ## Related links - [Source-control packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/source-control-tools/) - Belongs to a source-control command family. - [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata. - [Text processing packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/text-processing-tools/) - Matched text, document, or structured-data processing metadata. - [Developer build packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/developer-build-tools/) - Matched build, compiler, generator, or developer workflow metadata. - [python@3.14](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/python-3-14/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [gettext](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/gettext/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew. - [rust](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/rust/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew. - [mercurial](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/mercurial/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, distributed-vcs, python, version-control. - [darcs](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/darcs/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, distributed-vcs, version-control. - [git](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/git/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, distributed-vcs, version-control. - [pygitup](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/pygitup/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, python, version-control. - [braid](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/braid/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, version-control. - [codeberg-cli](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/codeberg-cli/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, version-control. - [cvs](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/cvs/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, version-control. - [cvs-fast-export](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/cvs-fast-export/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, version-control. - [pre-commit](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/pre-commit/) - Both packages touch the same language runtime or ecosystem. Shared terms: cli, control, developer, developer-tools, git. - [commitizen](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/commitizen/) - Both packages touch the same language runtime or ecosystem. Shared terms: cli, control, developer, developer-tools, git. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/breezy.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/breezy.yml) ## Sources - Nucleus package database - Geiger risk classifier - package-page enrichment - curated configuration and credential file locations - curated package history - package version freshness - av.db category and tag curation - package relationship graph - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph