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<h1>Working with another<a class="headerlink" href="#working-with-another" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
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<h2>Peer-to-peer rocks<a class="headerlink" href="#peer-to-peer-rocks" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>In many cases, two minds can be better than one. You may be the one
who started a project and someone wishes to help, or perhaps it’s you
who wants to help another. Perhaps you are both members of a larger
team that have been assigned a task together as pair programmers.
Either way, two people need to agree on a process, a set of
guidelines and a toolset in order to work together effectively.</p>
<p>Imagine if you were not allowed to call someone on the phone directly
and the only way to talk to them was by registering a conference call first?
Companies and communities that only share code via a central VCS
repository are living with a similar straitjacket to that every day.
There are times when central control makes a lot of sense and times
when peer-to-peer rocks. Either way, Bazaar is designed to help.</p>
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<h2>The partner workflow<a class="headerlink" href="#the-partner-workflow" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>While it’s certainly not the only way to do it, the <em>partner workflow</em>
below is a good starting point for a pair of people who wish to
collaborate using Bazaar.</p>
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<p>Over and above the tasks covered in the previous chapter, this
chapter introduces two essential collaboration activities:</p>
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<li>getting a copy of a branch</li>
<li>merging changes between branches.</li>
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<p>Even when it’s just you working on a code base, it can be very useful
to keep multiple branches around (for different releases say) and
to merge changes between them as appropriate. Your “partner” may indeed
be yourself.</p>
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