Pros and cons of different branching models in DVCS

Question

The Big Three of distributed version control (Git, Bazaar, and Mercurial) each treat branching fairly differently. In Bazaar, for example, branches are separate repos (actua

Answer 1

Bazaar doesn't require you to work the way you describe. I've actually written a blog post about it two days ago. You can work pretty much with only a single working tree, switching between various branches and creating new branches without leaving the working tree. Useful commands for this are: checkout, switch, branch --switch. Check out the workflow documentation for Bazaar, you will see that you can configure it in almost any way you want.