Branches

Development of major new features for Django tends to take place in branches — copies of the main codebase focused on a particular feature. Using branches makes it easier to experiment with such sweeping changes without possibly breaking the trunk — the main line of development.

Branches may not be stable, but they offer a chance to test out bleeding-edge code before it hits the mainline. Give them a try, and remember to send feedback to the branch maintainers!

1. Active Branches
2. Creating New Branches
3. DVCS mirrors

Active Branches

• Current there are six active branches, one for each student working as a part of the Google summer of code, they are located at: ​http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/branches/soc2009/

Creating New Branches

Please see ​http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/internals/contributing/#branch-policy for information about creating new feature branches.

DVCS mirrors

If you have a branch of Django maintained with a DVCS tool, please add it below.

Bazaar

​Launchpad mirrors Django's trunk: ​https://launchpad.net/django

You can fetch it with:

bzr branch lp:django

Git

There are several git repositories out there, some of which are used to develop patches that will come to SVN.

• Jannis Leidel has set up a git mirror on github, updated every 30 minutes.
  • Repository: ​http://github.com/django/django/tree/master
• Jacob Kaplan-Moss has also set up an experimental git mirror (​django-developers post):
  • Repository: ​git://djangoproject.com/django ​(browse) (broken as for 2009-03-11)
• Matthias Kestenholz has set up several git repositories for Django and for a selection of Django applications:
  • Gitweb with complete list of repositories: ​http://spinlock.ch/pub/git/ (broken as for 2009-03-11, http protocol works fine as of 2009-03-18, git protocol is stil broken)
  • The django changes are sporadically published on repo.or.cz: ​http://repo.or.cz/w/django.git/ (as for 2009-03-11, last update is 5 months old)
• Other people also published their repositories, in case you want to add them as remotes:
  • brosner: ​git://github.com/brosner/django.git ​(browse)
  • Marc Fargas (telenieko): ​git://www.marcfargas.com/django.git/ ​(browse)
  • Alex Gaynor: ​http://github.com/alex/django/tree/master

Mercurial (hg)

• Bitbucket: The Bitbucket crew maintains a number of Mercurial repositories that track official repositories of different projects, all of them owned by the ​mirror pseudo user. For Django, use ​http://bitbucket.org/mirror/django-new .
• ​GeoDjango Mercurial: includes gis-newforms (a merge of the gis and newforms-admin branches), example code, and other geospatial goodies.
• ​DjangoBugfixes: An experimental MQ repository following the trunk branch of Django. More info is available ​here.