Git Branching strategies

Git Branching strategies

GIT branching strategies are conventions, or a set of rules, that describes when branches are created. Choosing the right branching strategy is key to empower development teams to collaborate effectively.

January 28, 2020 · (updated February 5, 2024) · 11 min · Pradeep Loganathan

GIT Basics

Introduction Git, affectionately termed “the information manager from hell” by its creator Linus Torvalds is a distributed version control system. It allows for fast scaling, has robust branching features and is an open source software. It is also a relatively new version control system released in April 2005. It was created to version control the Linux source code and as such was a much proven system at birth. GIT is optimized for distributed development, large file counts, complex merge scenarios and is blazingly fast. ...

September 10, 2016 · (updated January 16, 2022) · 6 min · Pradeep Loganathan