Vernooij: Bazaar-NG: 7 years of hacking on a distributed version control system

The irony here is that for me at least I found git nice and simple because it had a clear core model in which it was easy to build up -- yourself -- whatever workflow you preferred. Bazaar tried to make things simple by adding explicit support for lots of workflows, but unfortunately that means you need to understand them all before you can figure out how the tool works and how to use it.

The number of such workflows, many closely similar, and all accompanied by deep changes in the behaviour of lots of bzr commands, is frankly overwhelming. I still can't keep them separate in my head despite much trying. And I am not the only one (there was a comment in the recent bzr-development-stopped thread which said much the same, and that thread was mostly populated by longtime users and developers of bazaar).