Hi, even after using bzr for small scale, mainly private projects, I'm a bit confused about the recommended workflow, and now would like to start a shared work. Could you please clarify whether the following is fine, and give some replies to the questions at the end? how to share my work with a public trunk (1) get mainline $ bzr checkout bzr://trunk ~/trunk (2) start my own branch $ cd ~/trunk $ bzr branch ~/trunk ~/project1 hack here (3) commit to branch $ bzr commit (4) merge to trunk $ cd ~/trunk $ bzr merge ~/project1 $ bzr commit -m 'merged project1' the last commit made the changes public as well, given that it was a checkout not a branch of trunk questions: 1. is there anything to adjust on this workflow? 2. would it be better to use a --lightwieght checkout at (1)? why? 3. would it be better to use bzr branch instead of bzr checkout in (1)? why? 4. is it possible to do proper merging/sharing without a local copy of trunk? (starting with $bzr branch bzr://trunk ~/myproject) 5. how to follow trunk with project1? my idea is the following $ cd ~/project1 $ bzr commit -m 'status before updating from trunk' $ cd ~/trunk $ bzr pull $ cd ~/project1 $ bzr merge ~/trunk and then see what changed $ bzr status $ bzr diff hack here if needed $ bzr commit -m 'updated to trunk' I hope my description is clear enough, and you will be able to help. Viktor