Branching & Merging | DevOps Engineers

📄️ Understanding Branches

Branches are what make Git powerful. They let you work on multiple things at once. They let you experiment safely. They're essential.

Merging is how you combine branches. Understanding merging is understanding how Git brings different lines of work together.

Git has different ways to merge branches. Understanding merge strategies is understanding how to control your history.

Rebase is Git's way of rewriting history. Understanding rebase is understanding how to create clean, linear history.

Conflicts happen when branches diverge. Understanding how to resolve conflicts during merges and rebases is essential.

Good branch management is good project organization. Understanding how to manage branches is understanding how to organize work.