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Pragmatic Version Control Using Git
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Pragmatic Version Control Using Git

by Travis Swicegood
December 2008
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
184 pages
4h 47m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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3.4 Using and Understanding Branches

Branches are a way to maintain alternate histories of the project you’re working on, like we talked about in Section 1.7, Creating Alternate Histories with Branches. Alternate histories are great, but how do we use them in a real project?

The honest answer is “any way you want.” For our purposes, though, we’ll narrow it down a bit. Two types of branches are useful: different versions of a project in different branches and topic branches that deal with a specific feature. In this section, we’ll talk about the first kind of branches.

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