understanding some of the basics

[John Gabriele]

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Neil Martinsen-Burrell
<nmb at wartburg.edu> wrote:
> On 2010-10-15 15:25 , John Gabriele wrote:
>
>>   * Is it typical to have more than one branch in a given working tree
>> -- such that one can switch at-will between branches, or merge one
>> branch into another -- all within the same working tree (and
>> repository)?
>
> This is not currently the typical way to use Bazaar.  The common setup is to
> have one branch per directory tree.

Ah, ok. Can you tell me how this typical usage works out in practice?
That is, I've got my top-level project directory `~/the-proj` == my
working tree containing its repository (in `~/the-proj/.bzr`). I've
initialized the repo, added files, made changes, committed them,
everything works ... I tag my current revision "works-ok". Now I want
to try and add my experimental feature. How exactly do I branch it (I
suppose I want a new branch tagged "adding-crazy-feature")? What are
the specific shell commands needed to accomplish this?

Thanks,
---John