Branching Workflows

Part of the Git course

Everything you have learned so far, branching, merging, rebasing, tagging, tells you what Git's commands do, but none of it tells you when to create a branch, how long to keep it around, or who is allowed to touch main directly. Git genuinely has no opinion about any of that.

Think of a shared kitchen with several cooks working at once. If everyone chops vegetables directly on the one central counter, they need to communicate constantly and clean up after themselves immediately, or things collide fast. If instead everyone preps their own dish at a separate station and only brings it to the counter when it is fully ready to plate, collisions are rarer but the counter can go quiet for a...