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After looking through the Intergalactic Mall Magazine, you see a pair of speakers that you really want for the space station. They are big enough to produce a good amount of sound and soft enough that the lack of gravity won't cause them to crash. The only problem is that they pretty pricey, and you need approval before you can officially add them to your list of supplies.

In the meantime, create a feature branch so that you can update the supply to your request list while you wait. Then when you have approval, you just merge the requests file from the feature branch into the main branch.

Branches are most powerful when you're working on a team. You can work on your own part of a project from your own branch, pull updates from Bitbucket, and then merge all your work into the main branch when it's ready. Our documentation includes more explanation of why you would want to use branches.

Step 1: Create a branch and make a change

Let's create a branch so that you can list the speakers in your supply requests file. Even though branches work differently between Git and Mercurial, you create them in a similar way from Sourcetree. From Sourcetree, click the Branch button.

Depending on whether you have a Git or Mercurial repository, you see a different popup for creating a new branch. From the New Branch or Create a new branch field, enter wish-list for the name of your branch.

Click Create Branch or OK.

From Sourcetree, click the Show in Finder button. The directory on your system opens.

From the directory folder, open the supplyrequest file with a text editor.

Making a change to the file by adding the following item to the list of supplies:

anti-gravity speakers

Save the file.

Open the view in Sourcetree and notice that your repository now has uncommitted changes.

From here, everything you do is the same as you did when you added the supplyrequest file and initially committed it.

If you have a Git repository, make supplyrequest.txt ready to commit by selecting Stage file from the options menu.

Click the Commit button at the top to commit the file.

In the message box, enter "Adding an item for my wish list."

Click the Commit button under the box. From Sourcetree, you see that the file has been updated on the wish-list branch.