Hotfix branches
After the release pipeline is used to deploy the application to either the fast or slow ring (QA or UAT), depending on the testing agreement, the QA team can start testing the application.
At this phase, any bugs created or additional feature requests that are pulled into the current release scope should be introduced by the development team using hotfix branches. Hotfix branches originate from the current release branch and are merged back into the release branch (for example, release/1.8 -> hotfix/12324 -> release/1.8) with the user of pull requests. Once the hotfix is merged back into release branch (that is, it has passed the validation), it will need to be merged back to development branch as well to propagate the code ...
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