Working on a project
Here are some guidelines on how to create changes and develop new revisions. These guidelines can be used either for your own work on your own project, or to help contribute your code to the project maintained by somebody else.
Different projects can use different development workflows; therefore, some of the recommendations presented here might not make sense, depending on the workflow that is used for a given project.
Working on a topic branch
Branching in Git has two functions (Chapter 6, Advanced Branching Techniques): as a mediator for the code contributed by developers keeping to the specified level of code stability and maturity (long-running public branches), and as a sandbox for the development of a new idea (short-lived ...
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