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Can I reuse merged branch?
You can simply merge/rebase to reuse the branch which is the easiest possible scenario.
Is it good practice to delete branch after merge?
Your history will always be preserved. So basically the only reason to keep hotfix branch after a merge is if you plan to make any more changes to the same hotfix, which doesn’t make much sense once you release the hotfix. So you should feel perfectly safe deleting the branch after the merge.
What happens when you merge a branch?
When you perform a merge, you effectively merge one branch into another—typically a feature branch or bug fix branch into a main branch such as master or develop. Not only will the code changes get merged in, but also all the commits that went into the feature branch.
Does deleting branch delete commits?
In Git, branches are just pointers (references) to commits in a directed acyclic graph (DAG) of commits. This means that deleting a branch removes only references to commits, which might make some commits in the DAG unreachable, thus invisible.
Are there any good practices for branching and merging?
From the history of that struggle emerged the most important lesson – a vast amount of effort and problems can be avoided by having a proper branching strategy and by a continuous integration (CI) process. Here are ten pretty-good practices, which I found useful.
What’s the best way to merge branches in Git?
Create a new branch from master for every new feature. Code a new feature and test it on a branch. Merge a feature branch into master, and watch it go live. There are a lot of common objections to it, that all can be summarized as “but what if I introduce a bug?!”.
When to merge a feature branch into a master branch?
When a feature branch is done, it should be merged into dev, then at some point you should branch your next release from dev (including some features) into a new ‘release/*’ branch which will be merged into master once it is stabilized and well tested.
Can You reuse patch 1 branch in Git?
Reusing the patch-1 branch (after its original PR has been merged and closed) is a good way to cause problems in your git repository. You can create another branch, and even give it the same name, but don’t recycle branches you’ve already associated with a pull request for use with any other work.