single directory multiple branches.

[Eric Berry]

Hello,
   I was wondering if there is a way to create multiple branches within a
single directory - sort of like how git does it.

My situation is like this. There is a main (trunk) branch of development
which releases are cut from, and there are X number of other major lines of
development which are shared by my coworkers. Currently, when I'm developing
a specific feature on one of these major lines of development I create a new
local branch of the remote line. This works fine except I find myself
sometimes spending more time resetting up my IDE on this new directory than
I do on actually coding the feature.

This translates to a directory structure like:
local shared repo/
   project/
      main branch/ (kept clean)
      team1 branch/ (kept clean - merges from main branch periodically)
      team1_f1 branch/ (local development on feature 1)
      team1_f2 branch/ (local development on feature 2)
      team1_f3 branch/ (local development on feature 3)

What I'd like is a setup more like this:
local shared repo/
   project/
      main branch/ (kept clean)
      team1 branch/ (kept clean - merges from main branch periodically)
      team1_work branch/ (local development)

The benefit for me would be that I can point my IDE at the team1_work
branch, and never have to change that. As I work on feature 1 I would switch
the work branch to the feature 1 line of development. If I need to work on
feature 2 during feature 1 development, I can commit my changes to feature
1, and switch to feature 2.

Is this possible with Bazaar?

Thanks,
Eric

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