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M. TsitoaraBeginning Git and GitHubhttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0215-7_11

11. Diving into Project Management: Branches

Mariot Tsitoara1  
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Antananarivo, Madagascar
 

In the last chapter, you discovered issues and used them to plan a project. You also learned how to link commits to issues so that you can track each change in a project. The workflow was simple: choose an issue, create a commit that can resolve it, and push it to GitHub. The issue was then marked as resolved and closed. However, this workflow is not well-suited for most real-world projects, as the potential for mistakes is too high.

What if you need more than one commit to resolve an issue? ...

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