Mirror trunk

[Ivan Metzlar]

Hello everybody!
 
at my company we are currently discussing the importance of a local mirror. Some of my colleagues use no local mirror, they branch from upstream and push directly to our remote server. Some of my other colleagues use a local mirror, they branch once from upstream and bind the local mirror and create working copies for each feature or bug. Much like described here: http://bazaar-vcs.org/Scenarios/RepeatedContributions
 
Still I can't find anything on the web explaining why 1 local mirror is better/less complex than using multiple (upstream) branches for each feature or bug. The only pattern I recognize is that centralized verion control fans don't use a local mirror and decentralized version control fans do. Why is it considered best practice to use a local mirror? It seems like more work for the same result....?
 
Kind regards,
 
Ivan
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