<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Branches — Bazaar v2.2.4 documentation</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../_static/default.css" type="text/css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../_static/pygments.css" type="text/css" />
<script type="text/javascript">
var DOCUMENTATION_OPTIONS = {
URL_ROOT: '../',
VERSION: '2.2.4',
COLLAPSE_INDEX: false,
FILE_SUFFIX: '.html',
HAS_SOURCE: true
};
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../_static/jquery.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../_static/underscore.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../_static/doctools.js"></script>
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="../_static/bzr.ico"/>
<link rel="top" title="Bazaar v2.2.4 documentation" href="../index.html" />
<link rel="up" title="Bazaar User Reference" href="index.html" />
<link rel="next" title="Checkouts" href="checkouts-help.html" />
<link rel="prev" title="Bazaar User Reference" href="index.html" />
</head>
<body>
<div class="related">
<h3>Navigation</h3>
<ul>
<li class="right" style="margin-right: 10px">
<a href="checkouts-help.html" title="Checkouts"
accesskey="N">next</a></li>
<li class="right" >
<a href="index.html" title="Bazaar User Reference"
accesskey="P">previous</a> |</li>
<li><a href="http://bazaar.canonical.com/">
<img src="../_static/bzr icon 16.png" /> Home</a> | </li>
<a href="http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/en/">Documentation</a> | </li>
<li><a href="../index.html">Table of Contents (2.2.4)</a> »</li>
<li><a href="index.html" accesskey="U">Bazaar User Reference</a> »</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="document">
<div class="documentwrapper">
<div class="bodywrapper">
<div class="body">
<div class="section" id="branches">
<h1>Branches<a class="headerlink" href="#branches" title="Permalink to this headline">ΒΆ</a></h1>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">bzr</span> <span class="pre">update</span></tt>.</p>
<p>Related commands:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>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.</pre>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sphinxsidebar">
<div class="sphinxsidebarwrapper">
<h4>Previous topic</h4>
<p class="topless"><a href="index.html"
title="previous chapter">Bazaar User Reference</a></p>
<h4>Next topic</h4>
<p class="topless"><a href="checkouts-help.html"
title="next chapter">Checkouts</a></p>
<h3>This Page</h3>
<ul class="this-page-menu">
<li><a href="../_sources/user-reference/branches-help.txt"
rel="nofollow">Show Source</a></li>
</ul>
<div id="searchbox" style="display: none">
<h3>Quick search</h3>
<form class="search" action="../search.html" method="get">
<input type="text" name="q" size="18" />
<input type="submit" value="Go" />
<input type="hidden" name="check_keywords" value="yes" />
<input type="hidden" name="area" value="default" />
</form>
<p class="searchtip" style="font-size: 90%">
Enter search terms or a module, class or function name.
</p>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">$('#searchbox').show(0);</script>
</div>
</div>
<div class="clearer"></div>
</div>
<div class="related">
<h3>Navigation</h3>
<ul>
<li class="right" style="margin-right: 10px">
<a href="checkouts-help.html" title="Checkouts"
>next</a></li>
<li class="right" >
<a href="index.html" title="Bazaar User Reference"
>previous</a> |</li>
<li><a href="http://bazaar.canonical.com/">
<img src="../_static/bzr icon 16.png" /> Home</a> | </li>
<a href="http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/en/">Documentation</a> | </li>
<li><a href="../index.html">Table of Contents (2.2.4)</a> »</li>
<li><a href="index.html" >Bazaar User Reference</a> »</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="footer">
© Copyright 2009, Canonical Ltd.
Created using <a href="http://sphinx.pocoo.org/">Sphinx</a> 1.0.7.
</div>
</body>
</html>
