master
branch is always production-ready, deployable, 100% green test suite- New development is done on feature branches, with frequent rebasing onto master
- Clean commit history by preferring to rebase instead of merge (
git pull
is configured to automatically rebase)
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Pull the latest from
origin/master
:git pull origin master
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Create your feature branch
git checkout -b concise-feature-branch-name
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Begin work on the new feature
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Keep your feature branch updated with master by rebasing onto master:
git fetch origin master git rebase origin/master
or
git checkout master git pull git checkout concise-feature-branch-name git rebase master
Resolve any conflicts that occur during rebase.
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Push your branch remotely and create a pull request when ready for peer review:
git push -u origin concise-feature-branch-name
Depending on peer review, keep pushing changes to the remote as needed.
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Interactively rebase your feature branch onto master once the feature is approved and ready for production:
git rebase -i origin/master
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Merge into
master
:git checkout master git pull origin master # The --no-ff is optional here...see the notes below git merge --no-ff concise-feature-branch-name git push origin master # This is also a good time to create a release tag git tag 1.0.10 git push 1.0.10
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Remove all branches that have been merged into master:
git branch -d concise-feature-branch-name git push origin :concise-feature-branch-name
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Git config for rebasing by default:
git config --global branch.autosetuprebase always git config --global pull.rebase true
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Merging into master in step 7 with the --no-ff option will create a merge commit even if the merge could be a fast-forward. Having this merge commit is helpful in that it retains the commits that went into the feature branch. (If you don't care to keep this series of commits on a feature branch or the feature branch was a single commit, you can omit the
--no-ff
in the merge command and let it fast-foward.) Single-level merge bubbles like this are ok. Here's what we don't want:
https://www.atlassian.com/it/git/articles/simple-git-workflow-is-simple
It looks like Continuous Integration (not Delivery)