Chapter 4. Branching and Integration

In the course of software development, we branch files to do concurrent, parallel work on them, and we integrate files to combine the results of such work. In this chapter, we'll look at how to do branching and integration with Perforce.

This chapter won't dwell on reasons to branch, what to branch, or how to work with different kinds of branches, Not that those things aren't important—they are, and they'll be given due consideration in Part II. But for now, we'll limit our discussion to the mechanics of branching and integrating.