Gitflow is a legacy Git workflow that was originally a disruptive and novel strategy for managing Git branches. Gitflow has fallen in popularity in favor of trunk-based workflows, which are now considered best practices for modern continuous software development. However, we think it's good to know how it works because it's likely to join a team that still uses.
master & develop branches
In Gitflow we use develop as the development branch, meaning we will include our new features here. Once a new version is ready for the App Store, we will merge develop into master (via a release branch, as we will see in this article) and create a tag with the version on the latter.
Therefore, develop will record all development activity, while master will only record releases to the App Store. In other words, it will maintain the production version of the code (App Store).
Continue reading
Access to all the content with our plans.
- Junior level content
- Senior level content
- Expert level content
- Extra content
- Question submissions
Be the first to comment