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Development Tools Git Basics Working With Remote Repositories Cloning

Floyd Orr
Floyd Orr
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Posted by Floyd Orr
Floyd Orr
11,723 Points

When working on a project my own or another when should i be branching?

I'm not sure I understand when I should branch. If I have my commits and it's all saved and referenced why would I want to add branching just have one more thing to keep track of?

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Charles Smith
Charles Smith
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Charles Smith
Charles Smith
7,575 Points

This will vary depending on your environment. Some places will have specific expectations for when to branch. The way I do it for my projects (thus far, reasonably small) is to have master be the production branch, and then any time i work on bug fixes or a new feature, I branch. This way I know that master is always the current, working code, and if I get the itch to stop working on feature X and work on feature Y instead, it's very easy to switch branches.