Once Bazaar is installed and set up you can use Bazaar to download and then keep updated the current development version of Drupal.

The Bazaar mirror of the development version of Drupal is at http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~vcs-imports/drupal/main

Getting Drupal can take between 2 and 10 minutes.

The short version for getting Drupal is

bzr branch lp:drupal

The longer version for getting Drupal is

bzr init drupal
cd drupal
bzr pull http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~vcs-imports/drupal/main

If you forget to initialize you run into this error bzr: ERROR: Not a branch: "/x/y/z/".

Later on, a simple command will keep you up to date:

bzr pull

We'll cover how to update a Drupal branch that you have modified in a later chapter. Don't worry; the process is almost as easy.

Comments

svemir’s picture

If you follow the "longer version for getting Drupal" instructions, with Bazaar 2.2.0 on Windows, your local repository will be initialized with a different format, you will get a "Doing on-the-fly conversion from RepositoryFormatKnitPack1() to RepositoryFormat2a()." message, it will take a long time, and will probably not complete.

"bzr branch lp:drupal" works like a charm.