Branching Strategies

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Tony Kelly hosts our latest episode of Continuous Delivery Office Hours, with Bob Walker and Steve Fenton.

Your branching strategy can support Continuous Delivery, or make it an impossible goal. Teams should assess the impact of how they branch on their ability to deliver software at all times, and that means there are some branching techniques that make software delivery more like walking in the dark through a field of rakes.

Listen now to discover:

  • The best branching strategies
  • The worst possible branching strategy
  • How branching fits into Continuous Delivery
  • Confessions from our worst merges
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