Git Branching Strategy

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Git Branching Strategy

feature branch:

• Feature branch is where developers will start developing their code.

• Each individual developer will have their own feature branch.

• To get their changes approved by other developers and reviewers, developers have to raise Pull Requests (PRs).

 
develop branch:

• In this branch developer will test their code.

• New developers will always use this branch to create a feature branch from it.

• Development branch will or should always have reviewed code.
  
  

release branch:

• This branch will have stable / tested code.

• From this branch we should be able to deploy the code to UAT (user acceptance testing) and demo environments.
                  

hotfix branch:

• All the critical and major bugs found in production environment, will be fixed in this branch.

• A similar fix is reflected in development, once the fix is released into the production environment.
  
  

main branch:

• main branch will be used for all deployments into production.

• Developers or anyone else will be unable to perform any kind of write operations to this branch by default.

Reference: Github Flow https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/quickstart/github-flow