Questions tagged [branching]
Branching, in revision control is the duplication of an object under revision control so that modifications can happen in parallel along both branches.
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How to manage release branch(or canary branch) that need to apply feature change occasionally
We've tried to adopt Gitlab flow with release branch as out team's branch management strategy. The developers just:
to do feature development, they checkout a branch from master then merge it to ...
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Where to put technical updates in git branching flow?
From time to time you need to do technical updates, like:
Update versions of your dependencies
Update the version of your parent POM, you build tool etc.
Leave out those updates that have a firm ...
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Git: Best practices for using updates from one branch in another
My team is working on building a bunch of automated tests for our project. Each automated test targets a "customization" our client ordered to modify an existing website.
The current flow is:...
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GitHub Versioning - Organizing Structure
I am making a JS library that creates graphs and charts using canvas. I have hosted it on GitHub as a public repository.
So after looking at some other related questions, I have figured out two ...
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How to properly manage bugfixes for released versions in git flow
We follow git flow, see https://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/
Lets imagine the following situation:
We have a current version 2.0.8 on our prod environment. After a while, several ...
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How to handle code reviews on a collaborative feature branch
We are using GitHub as our source code repository along with Visual Studio. We are going to start to use the GitFlow branching model, so a new feature request will be branched off and worked on in ...
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How to manage depolarization of completed work on Agile Scrum
Description is too long, but this is a pain point.
I just want to understand whether this is also practice of Agile, if yes, how to overcome some of the issues mentioned below. Thank you.
We are ...
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When creating a fix, how does branching off the release candidate branch compare with cherry-picking from master?
When we have bug/hotfix for the release candidate, we branch off of the RC branch and merge that fix back into the RC branch. We also merge (git merge, not cherry-pick) that fix into the master branch ...
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Git branching model that support small changes and downstream dependencies
Challenge:
I am implementing a microservice/app/applet.
Several features will be delivered
As things develop later features rely/depend on earlier Pull-Requests (PR)
Developer resoruces are finite, ...
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Is there a legitimate case for short lived, destructible release branches?
At my current workplace there are some projects that when preparing a release will
backup the current RELEASE branch by making a branch from it with the current date (this isnt technically required, ...
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Trunk Based Development and Long Lived Release Branches
My very large team is following trunk based development with many short lived features branches, trunk, and a release branch for when we create release artifacts. This is a team that keeps the release ...
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What is the best way to organize Hotfixes
I work at a rather small company, around 10 devs and we are facing a lot of problems with merges and so on, I figured it could be because of the amount Hotfixes we are merging into master daily.
So I ...
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Disadvantages for having completely different codebases in different git branches
One senior member of my team setup a new git repository for our product we are working on, since we are migrating from SVN to git. Our product consists of different software components that are ...
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Why shouldn't I merge two feature branches in git-flow?
When there are two feature branches that has some dependencies, and they are work in progress, but some piece of code want to be shared, why shouldn't I merge a feature into another?
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How to handle dependecies between branches in git-flow?
I've been working on feature_A while another dev works on feature_B. Now, the other dev needs a small functionallity that's implemented in my feature_A, but I've not finished the whole feature itself. ...
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Working on a two branches, that are not dependent by business meaning, but dependent by implementation
I have a class Foo with lots of fields and have two tickets to refactor that class.
the first ticket is to rename it to Boo and two move it to another package.
the second one is to rename some fields ...
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Releasing from feature branches
My app is being deployed on various platforms, among which GNU/Linux, iOS and Android. I am contemplating the branching model of the central C++ code git repo, upon which all platform-dependent code ...
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What's the correct Git flow to develop on two independent features + one feature that relies on both?
I'm trying to find the correct flow to manage this kind of development, where A and B are two independent features, and C is a third feature that relies on A and B.
An obvious approach would be to ...
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Versioning in parallel features development
I have a library (npm package, LIB) which is used by the application code (APP). In a release of APP, multiple features are worked on parallely. Sometimes these features need support from LIB, so the ...
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TFS Branching for Xamarin Common Projects
I have a solution for Xamamrin.iOS and Xamarin.Android application with structure as below,
Solution Root
Common Project
Xamarin.iOS Project
Xamarin.Android Project
I need to branch both iOS and ...
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Using gitflow, when do people tend to close off the release branch?
We're using the gitflow branching strategy and it works well. What I can't seem to find though is a recommendation on what point people close their releases.
For example, suppose we got 4 ...
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Using Github Branches to maintain two versions of a project?
I have a Github project for a Django web-app that one team uses. Other teams are interested in also using it and they'll need separate instances of it (it's a stock tracking database so they need to ...
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How to review and merge a big feature
We are creating a new page on our website which will require overall ~5000 LOC.
Now the problems here are:
How to get so many lines reviewed?
When to merge these changes to master for release?
How ...
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Does it actually matter from which branch you create a new branch in git?
Well as per title, does it matter in any way functionally (say when rewriting history or something), from which branch one derives a new branch?
If at the point of time when creating the new branch ...
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Whose responsibility is it to fix merge conflicts?
Say that A is working on a branch based off master and B merges changes into the master branch, which introduces merge conflicts between A's branch and master.
Whose responsibility is it to fix merge ...
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What is the best GIT workflow with CI/CD with submodules in a master to a test environment and a stable branch to a production environment?
We have a several GIT repos in Azure DevOps with .NET Core web applications that are related to each other with the use of submodule (we used autocreation of NuGet Packages in a private NuGet store, ...
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Making recursion optional: Bad practice?
Let's say I have a function like this:
/*
Mode is a bool that determines whether the function uses
it's recursive mode or not
*/
public static int func(int n, boolean mode) {
if (!mode) ...
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Git model: branches for features based on master
I organize my Git projects based on the article A successful Git branching model. The problem is that I don't know how to handle the following case:
develop: working on a major app redesign (taking ~...
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Is it better to merge "often" or only after completion do a big merge of feature branches?
Say multiple branches are being developed, A and B, as well as a incremental "bug fix" branch C.
Now C is already "finished" and merged into master. A and B are still in development and will not be ...
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Can long lived feature branches be justified by merging master into the feature branch daily
I've always considered long lived feature branches a symptom of some underlying problem, but I've recently moved jobs and the company I am working for now encourages long lived feature branches. They ...
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Branching strategy with GitHub releases
I am working on the project where currently we have following three fixed branches
Develop - The code is deployed to development environment. It's a base branch for anyone who want to add new ...
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Where to commit small, miscellaneous changes
Let's assume that I am working on a small project that uses feature branches to organize tasks. For example, feature/login would be for working on the login functionality and feature/create-new-post ...
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Any advice for Git workflow using branch per development team (and not per feature)
In our project, we have 5 teams working on a monolithic application in 3-week sprints. Until now, all commits go into master (via Gerrit). Our test pipeline is too lengthy to ensure quality pre-commit,...
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What's the best approach when you need to work off two branches that still have pending PR requests?
Let's say I have branch-1 (branched off master (major update)) and branch-2 (also branched off master (minor update)).
What is the best approach to do when I need to create another branch, e.g. ...
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Need a Git branching how-to
Using GitFlow, I created a new class on the develop branch and gave it a property:
Public Class Class1
Public Property Property1 As String
End Class
I committed that change and created a new ...
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Unit tests branch best practices [closed]
I'd like advice about on the best practice for Pull Requests organizing on middle size project. Especially relating to Unit Testing.
Currently we create branch for each feature, what is practically ...
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Managing QA testing when there's pressure to merge things at the earliest possible
I'm working in a team of 12 where we have around 8 developers and a QA. We do not follow a git flow model but we do have feature branches where individual feature developments take place and then ...
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Git feature branch workflow for multiple branched features
I wanted to summarize a quick discussion we had in my stand-up today. We have a big feature branch merge coming up in our system. We are replacing the old live, system (branch master) with a redesign (...
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Git branches: Merging issues while having multiple release branches
We have to support multiple releases, so we are following git branching model similar to the above diagram. Now the problem is that we have to do lots of merging here example for fix/011, we are ...
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Versioning: Where exactly in the code or repository should I write the version number?
Right now I'm doing this:
Update the readme to include the new version number and what it does.
Commit the version number in git commit message (i.e git commit -m "1.2.1: this does that").
Push the ...
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Branching strategy when utilizing open source application
I'm looking for advice on what a good branching strategy looks like when using mostly open source code. Most of my dev experience is with writing and working with custom made code and only using open ...
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Do I need to 'deploy' my web project when I can just keep a recent clone of the Master-branch in public_html?
We have git installed on our webserver (via cpanel), but unfortunately no CI- / Deployment-Tools.
Would it be good practice just initialise our repository in /public_html/ and push our local Dev-...
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How to track features in trunk based development?
As far as I understand in trunk-based development there are no long lived feature branches, one could even argue that there are no branches because at the end everything will be merged back to trunk ...
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Implement Branching strategy in DevOps for Multi-Tenant application
I have asked this question on Stack Overflow and I got a suggestion of posting it here for better suitability. So here is my question :
I am new to DevOps, and i have a solution with Umbraco as CMS, ...
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What are the risks of having a release branch?
Currently we manage our source code in a Microsoft Team Foundation Server project. We have the following branches:
Development
Feature 1
Feature 2
Etc.
Test
The process is that development is ...
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managing multiple git repo that are similar [closed]
We are creating several websites, the main content will be the same across each of them but there will be some differences (e.g. extra button, extra texts, different styling)
what is the best way to ...
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Should I further branch off of a new branch or continue developing an additional feature in the same branch?
I have a branch (dashboard) which I am developing a new feature on.
To make the example easy to follow, I am developing two separate functions (function1() and function2()).
They work how I want ...
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Does it matter which branch I push to?
My question is around how branch pushes work exactly; I have come across something that doesn't make logical sense to me and as such would like an explanation as to why I am experiencing this ...
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Will introducing a long standing Dev branch create unnecessary maintenance overhead?
I am seeing bad practices occurring in our version control where my colleagues are creating their own versioning system with stored procedures so that they can compare results before/after changes and ...
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Differences between branching and virtual methods
I was trying to find more info on the matter but could only find this:
In C++ why and how are virtual functions slower?
The answer says that the virtual call "Get[s] the right function address from ...
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