Pushing several local commits to a remote branch

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Martin Pool <mbp at canonical.com>
> Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:36:10 +1000
> Cc: bazaar at lists.canonical.com
> 
> Still: why not actually make full-fledged branches locally, merge into
> a local copy of trunk, then push that?

Because the overhead of merging, both from trunk to the local branch
and then back, and the resulting slow-down due to the need to use the
"-n" switch to "bzr log" is not justified for small one-time changes,
like changing a few lines in a single function or fixing a doc string.

For more serious development, especially one that I cannot finish in
one short half-hour session, I do use a local branch.  I cannot speak
for others.