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Git Branching Strategies: Stop Naming Your Branches 'my-changes'
I once worked on a project where the branches were named 'fix', 'fix2', 'asdf', and 'pleasework'. It was chaos. We didn’t know what was in production, what was being tested, or who was working on what. Then we adopted a simple branching strategy, like Git Flow. Suddenly, we had a `main` branch for production, a `develop` branch for integration, and feature branches named `feature/user-authentication`. It sounds bureaucratic, but it’s actually liberating. You can work on multiple features in parallel without stepping on toes. It brings order to the creative chaos of coding. Plus, it makes you look like you know what you’re doing.
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