= 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!

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== 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 ===

[https://launchpad.net/ 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.

 * The '''official git mirror''' is maintained by Jannis Leidel, updated every five minutes and hosted on [http://github.com GitHub]: [http://github.com/django/django/] * 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 [http://github.com/brosner/django/tree/master (browse)]
   * Marc Fargas (telenieko): git://www.marcfargas.com/django.git/ [http://www.marcfargas.com/gitweb/?p=django.git;a=summary (browse)]
   * Alex Gaynor: http://github.com/alex/django/tree/master

=== Mercurial (hg) ===

 * '''Official mirror''': It's hosted on [http://bitbucket.org Bitbucket], it is updated every five minutes: http://bitbucket.org/django/django

Other repositories

 * [http://geodjango.org/hg/ GeoDjango Mercurial]: includes `gis-newforms` (a merge of the `gis` and `newforms-admin` branches), example code, and other geospatial goodies.
 * [http://joelia.gthc.org/django-bugfixes/ DjangoBugfixes]: An experimental MQ repository following the trunk branch of Django. More info is available [http://gthc.org/wiki/PythonWebDevelopment/DjangoBugfixes here].