Branches

A branch consists of the state of a project, including all of its history. All branches have a repository associated (which is where the branch history is stored), but multiple branches may share the same repository (a shared repository). Branches can be copied and merged.

In addition, one branch may be bound to another one. Binding to another branch indicates that commits which happen in this branch must also happen in the other branch. Bazaar ensures consistency by not allowing commits when the two branches are out of date. In order for a commit to succeed, it may be necessary to update the current branch using bzr update.

Related commands:

init    Change a directory into a versioned branch.
branch  Create a new branch that is a copy of an existing branch.
merge   Perform a three-way merge.
bind    Bind a branch to another one.