bzr pull vs. bzr update

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Tom Widmer writes:

 > Incidentally, does it make sense for the parent branch and bound branch 
 > to be different? What use cases are there for that, since it is 
 > obviously a potential source of confusion?

If you want to implement the workflow

    public mainline -> workspace -> public variant

then parent = "public mainline", bound = "public variant" seems like
an obvious try.  I haven't tried it (I'm not a good enough programmer
to think that everything I commit should go Gold immediately :-).