Hi Joe, 
I think that several approaches are possible.
It strongly depends on your scenario: 

1) You work on your local instance and you have finish your work
--> pass your collegue the repository. He can have a fresh Magnolia instance 
with all your modification already there

2) You want to work togheter
--> Use one installation as a master: every configuration must be done on that 
instance, then passed to the other. 2 ways: A) direct activation (just add the 
other instance as a subscriber) B) export/import JCR xml

3) You are working with a PROD environment (e.g.: your site has already been 
deployed once): 
--> You can use version handler and SVN/GIT. You can track your changes into 
SetPropertyTasks, ChangePropertyTask, BootstrapTasks... (see core module for 
more info). Merging is more easy with a SCM than in plain XML files. Just work 
with small chunk of XML and actions. You can trigger a version handling simply 
changing the version of a module back (e.g.: 5.1.1 --> 5.1.0 will trigger at 
next reboot the version handling for version 5.1.1).

About other question: 
YES: you can have a public instance that activate on author instance (not a 
best practice). But just remember that author and public have different 
settings. Pay attention.

HTH!
Matteo

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