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+# Pepperdash Essentials
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+#### How to merge
+
+
+## Essentials Framework
+
+- If any external references have changed (like PepperDash.Core), make not of them in the commit in Framework
+
+
+- Make changes
+- Build
+- Test on your system
+- Commit and push to framework
+- Commit and push to essentials
+- Curse a whole lot when you try to figure out how to then get developments all synced up