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

• A list of all branches, active and inactive, can be found here: ​http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/branches?order=name

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.

• The official git mirror is maintained by Jannis Leidel, updated every five minutes and hosted on 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/ (as of 2010-10-11 http protocol works , git protocol is broken)
• 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)

• Official mirror: It's hosted on ​Bitbucket, it is updated every five minutes: ​http://bitbucket.org/django/django (warning This one is currently broken and is not updated anymore since the move to git)

• Unofficial mirror: It's not an official one, but it is maintained, and follows the git repository. ​http://bitbucket.org/orzel/django
• See MercurialBranches for how to use hg with Django

Other repositories

• ​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.