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Using the Git flow branching strategy

Using the Git flow branching strategy

From the course: Designing and Implementing Source Control using GitHub and Azure DevOps

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Using the Git flow branching strategy

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- [Instructor] Now let's dive into the Git Flow branching strategy. This strategy defines a set of branches and their purpose to facilitate parallel development of new features, hot fixes, and releases. Recall that the Git Flow branching model consists of two main branches, master and develop. The master branch is the main branch and should always contain stable production ready code. The develop branch is used to develop and integrate new features. We can complete this demo using Azure DevOps. Let us open the report that we imported from GitHub in a previous lesson. Now let us create the develop branch. After the develop branch has been created, let us create a feature branch based on the develop branch. In naming a feature branch, the feature branch should represent the name of the feature being developed. The naming pattern usually includes a stating feature, slash, and the name of the feature that is going to be…

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