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Chapter 10. Development Codelines > Creating A Development Codeline
10.1. Creating A Development Codeline
Creating a development codeline is a matter of creating a branch view and a master workspace, and using them as branching files. The curator of the development codeline does these things, after deciding what to name the codeline and which modules to branch. First we'll look at the factors and steps involved in creating a development codeline.
10.1.1. Why a Development Codeline?
The purpose of a development codeline is to isolate potentially disruptive coding and to decouple project schedules. Ideally, we wouldn't need development codelines—all development would take place in the mainline, and when it was done, we'd make a release. Realistically, we have to isolate projects from the mainline and decouple them from one another because:
