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2977.1.3
by Ian Clatworthy
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Going solo |
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A personal productivity tool |
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Some tools are designed to make individuals productive (e.g. editors) |
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while other tools (e.g. back-end services) are focussed on making teams |
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or whole companies more productive. Version control tools have |
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traditionally been in the latter camp. |
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One of the cool things about Bazaar is that it is so easy to setup |
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that version control can now be treated as a personal productivity tool. |
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If you wish to record changes to files for the purposes of checkpointing |
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good known states or tracking history, it is now easy to do so. This |
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chapter explains how. |
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The solo workflow |
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If you are creating your own masterpiece, whether that be a software |
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project or a set of related documents, the typical workflow looks like this: |
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.. image:: images/workflows_single.png |
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Even if you will always be working as part of a team, the tasks covered |
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in this chapter will be the basis of what you'll be doing so it's a good |
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place to start. |