How Bazaar works

[Daniel Carrera]

David Ingamells wrote:
> That's how our teams works with bzr. One task == one branch. Our 
> situation is slightly different in that the central repos is local so
> we all branch directly from that:

Yeah, I'd think that'd be the most common way to use a distributed SCM.

> If the main repos is remote then I believe the only change needed is to 
> make and maintain _one_ full local branch and to checkout/branch 
> (lightweight or stacked [current bug in 2.0.3 allowing]) from that for 
> your tasks. These task checkouts/branches are small and fast to create.

Thanks.

> Don't know enough about bzr internals, but I'd expect bzr to be able to 
> cope with that.

Yeah. I thought the same.

Daniel.