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What is Dev branch used for?
Develop and main branches Instead of a single main branch, this workflow uses two branches to record the history of the project. The main branch stores the official release history, and the develop branch serves as an integration branch for features.
Should you have a staging branch?
Using Production and Staging Branches In most cases you will have a staging environment as well, where your team or clients can review changes together. Having a staging environment branch will help you keep that environment with the same benefits as a production branch.
Why is the development branch always newer than the production branch?
From my understanding, master should always be totally stable and reflect production. If developers are working on feature branches, and then merging those into master when they’re done, that means there’s a period of time where features/fixes are being merged into master and the master branch is actually newer than production.
Do you have a production branch or using master?
We have thought about a branching structure like below: But some of the developers thought it might be less confusing for new developers who might automatically push to production on master. They thought instead to have everyone work on master and create a separate branch for production.
When to merge a branch into a master branch?
If your branch causes issues, you can roll it back by deploying the existing master into production. Now that your changes have been verified in production, it is time to merge your code into the master branch.
Why is the ” develop ” branch going away in Git?
Imagine if people are merging straight into master, and a bug is reported in production that becomes difficult to fix because the master branch codebase has changed significantly. Then the devs just have to tell the user to wait until the next release to see the issue resolved. EDIT: This question is different than “to branch or not to branch.”