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Essential Trunk Based Development

Trunk-based development , which supports rapid integration, has two key elements:

The number of long-lived active branches is small, typically just one: the Main Line.

You integrate work into the Main Line from a Workspace or a Work Branch frequently

While there seems to be a simple approach to this: “Just Don’t Branch!”, frequent integration into the Main Line reliably is difficult. You want to

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	スクラム実践者が知るべき97のこと by Gunther Verheyen (Goodreads Author), Evelien Acun-Roos (Contributor), Peter Beck (Contributor) 3.84 avg rating — 57 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Software Configuration Management Patterns: Effective Teamwork, Practical Integration (Software Patterns Series) by Stephen P. Berczuk (Goodreads Author), Brad Appleton 3.39 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2002	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pattern Languages of Program Design by James O. Coplien (Goodreads Author), Douglas C. Schmidt, Stephen P. Berczuk (Goodreads Author) 3.41 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1995 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pattern Languages of Program Design 2 by John M. Vlissides (Editor), James O. Coplien (Goodreads Author), Stephen P. Berczuk (Goodreads Author) 3.65 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1996	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Configuration Management Principles and Practice (Agile Software Development Series) by Ross Venables, Glen Hass, Stephen P. Berczuk (Goodreads Author) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Streamed Lines: Branching Patterns for Parallel Software Development by Brad Appleton, Stephen P. Berczuk (Goodreads Author), Ralph Cabrera did not like it 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1998	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Practitioner's Handbook of Project Performance: Agile, Waterfall and Beyond (Project and Programme Management Practitioner Handbooks) by Mark Phillips (Editor), Stephen P. Berczuk (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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