Rough Draft of a branching API that exists on the view rather than a separate branch object

[noencke]

I do not intend to check this in as-is, it is here so people can easily view it and make comments - please refrain from correcting grammar/typos/etc. unless you think they are preventing a reader from correctly understanding the meaning of the document.

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⯅ @fluid-example/bundle-size-tests: +245 Bytes

Metric Name	Baseline Size	Compare Size	Size Diff
aqueduct.js	460.31 KB	460.34 KB	⯅ +35 Bytes
azureClient.js	557.29 KB	557.34 KB	⯅ +49 Bytes
connectionState.js	724 Bytes	724 Bytes	■ No change
containerRuntime.js	259.58 KB	259.6 KB	⯅ +14 Bytes
fluidFramework.js	405.95 KB	405.96 KB	⯅ +14 Bytes
loader.js	134.34 KB	134.36 KB	⯅ +14 Bytes
map.js	42.46 KB	42.46 KB	⯅ +7 Bytes
matrix.js	148.63 KB	148.64 KB	⯅ +7 Bytes
odspClient.js	524.25 KB	524.3 KB	⯅ +49 Bytes
odspDriver.js	97.84 KB	97.86 KB	⯅ +21 Bytes
odspPrefetchSnapshot.js	42.81 KB	42.82 KB	⯅ +14 Bytes
sharedString.js	164.82 KB	164.83 KB	⯅ +7 Bytes
sharedTree.js	396.41 KB	396.41 KB	⯅ +7 Bytes
Total Size	3.31 MB	3.31 MB	⯅ +245 Bytes

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Baseline commit: 082c72d4162619e8438e8adb42e07af1ce7f10eb

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🔗 No broken links found! ✅

Your attention to detail is admirable.

linkcheck output

> [email protected] ci:linkcheck /home/runner/work/FluidFramework/FluidFramework/docs
> start-server-and-test ci:start 1313 linkcheck:full

1: starting server using command "npm run ci:start"
and when url "[ 'http://127.0.0.1:1313' ]" is responding with HTTP status code 200
running tests using command "npm run linkcheck:full"


> [email protected] ci:start
> http-server ./public --port 1313 --silent


> [email protected] linkcheck:full
> npm run linkcheck:fast -- --external


> [email protected] linkcheck:fast
> linkcheck http://localhost:1313 --skip-file skipped-urls.txt --external

Crawling...

Stats:
  428360 links
    3310 destination URLs
       2 URLs ignored
       0 warnings
       0 errors

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