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A common approach I see on software projects is where Developers create separate Git branches for each task they work on.<\/p>\n\n
This commonly matches issues or ticket on a sprint board or issue tracker.<\/p>\n\n
Each ticket is worked on independently and merged into a long-lived mainline branch once complete.<\/p>\n\n
This type of approach is commonly called Git Flow or GitHub Flow.<\/p>\n\n
It's something I've given presentations<\/a> on in the past.<\/p>\n\n A common downfall is that different branches can conflict with each other - either due to a merge conflict where the same lines are changed in different branches, or incompatible code is written that works separately but not when merged together.<\/p>\n\n I used to work this way, even when working on projects as the only Developer.<\/p>\n\n One time, I was demoing two features to a client and needed to switch branches and doing so broke what it was trying to show.<\/p>\n\n These days, I avoid conflicts between branches by not branching.<\/p>\n\n Everyone works on a single branch and pulls and pushes changes regularly.<\/p>\n\n If you're doing continuous integration<\/a>, that should be once a day as an absolute minimum.<\/p>\n\n I do test-driven development<\/a> and usually commit after each passing test.<\/p>\n\n If you work on a single branch and pull and push changes regularly, you're much less likely to get merge conflicts and Developers can focus on pushing code instead of fixing merge conflicts.<\/p>\n\n ",
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"processed": "\n A common approach I see on software projects is where Developers create separate Git branches for each task they work on.<\/p>\n\n This commonly matches issues or ticket on a sprint board or issue tracker.<\/p>\n\n Each ticket is worked on independently and merged into a long-lived mainline branch once complete.<\/p>\n\n This type of approach is commonly called Git Flow or GitHub Flow.<\/p>\n\n It's something I've given presentations<\/a> on in the past.<\/p>\n\n A common downfall is that different branches can conflict with each other - either due to a merge conflict where the same lines are changed in different branches, or incompatible code is written that works separately but not when merged together.<\/p>\n\n I used to work this way, even when working on projects as the only Developer.<\/p>\n\n One time, I was demoing two features to a client and needed to switch branches and doing so broke what it was trying to show.<\/p>\n\n These days, I avoid conflicts between branches by not branching.<\/p>\n\n Everyone works on a single branch and pulls and pushes changes regularly.<\/p>\n\n If you're doing continuous integration<\/a>, that should be once a day as an absolute minimum.<\/p>\n\n