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[Martin Pool <mbp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 22 April 2011 18:07, Robert Collins <robert.collins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Thomas Goirand <thomas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> git checkout -b new-soren-branch
>>
>> This is pretty instant. Now do:
>>
>> bzr branch trunk new-soren-branch
>>
>> and wait for all files to copy ...
>
> So, bzr had a design concept at the start that folk should start in
> one dir and grow - like RCS - because it gives a /very/ smooth
> learning curve.

If you like reusing one working tree across multiple branches, as is
common in git, I would really recommend you use the bzr-colo plugin,
which automates much of what Robert describes.  Making a new branch in
the same tree is then `bzr colo-branch my-new-branch` and it is pretty
much instant.

http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/plugins/en/colo-plugin.html

Martin