Git Best Practices Guide

Chapter 5. Using Git for Continuous Integration

In the previous four chapters, we talked about Git's features, from its most common uses to the most complex ways to use it. However, if this book ends with the previous chapter, it will only be a guide to use Git.

My aim, as an author, is to show you how to use Git to be more efficient in your development. The point of this chapter is to see various approaches to use Git and understand how important Git is to your workflow.

So, in this last chapter, we will see how to:

• Create specific branches to improve your workflow
• Use Git inside an agile environment
• Work with Continuous Integration
• Use other Git tools

Creating an efficient branching system

In the previous chapters, we saw that Git is very useful when ...