Chapter 6 Rebasing Your Work Area

Periodically, your project manager or project integrator incorporates delivered work into new baselines. Some of these baselines constitute a stable and significant source configuration, and your project manager recommends the baseline.

Rebasing has several benefits:

• You stay up-to-date with other developers' work.

• You reduce the number of merges and minimize the time required to merge versions.

• You identify integration problems early.

Each time your project manager recommends a new baseline for your parent stream, rebase your development work area.

Rebasing involves these tasks:

• Preparing your development view

• Starting the rebase operation

• Testing your development work area

• Completing the rebase operation