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Feature branching slows delivery

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+title: Feature branching slows delivery
+date: 2025-03-05
+permalink: daily/2025/03/05/slow
+tags:
+  - software-development
+  - git
+cta: ~
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+  As well as causing merge conflicts, feature branches slow the delivery of new features.
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+As well as [causing merge conflicts][0], feature branches slow the delivery of new features.
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+Someone needs to be responsible for merging the branches once they've been reviewed and approved, and any further merges into release branches.
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+This is typically the Lead Developer on the project, but this person then becomes a bottleneck.
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+They need to oversee all the branches and merges, and know what needs to be merged and where it needs to be deployed.
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+This slows down the speed of delivery.
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+In a trunk-based environment, there's only one branch and everyone can commit and push to it.
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+And, if you're [doing continuous delivery][1], any changes will be automatically deployed.
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+No more bottleneck.
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+[0]: {{site.url}}/daily/2025/02/18/conflicts
+[1]: {{site.url}}/daily/2025/02/17/ci-cd