Branch

As explained in Infrastructure as Code, Patterns and Practices: With examples in Python and Terraform

A branch is a named line of development in a version-control repository that maintains changes independently from other lines until they are combined.

How Infrastructure as Code, Patterns and Practices: With examples in Python and Terraform covers it

How deep it goes

Defines branches and demonstrates creation, committing, pushing, updating, merging, testing, and conflict reconciliation.

Examples

Uses firewall rules, license updates, emergency module fixes, and operating-system image rollbacks as concrete cases.

What it assumes

Assumes familiarity with repositories, configuration changes, commits, and testing while demonstrating the branch workflow explicitly.

What you can do after

Apply it via Git to isolate, commit, publish, update, test, and merge infrastructure changes.

How it connects

Connects branches with version control, feature-based development, main branches, remote branches, merging, and continuous deployment.

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  Think Like a CTOA named line of development in a version-control repository that can diverge from and later be integrated with another line.
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  Statistics Every Programmer NeedsA branch is an edge in a decision tree representing one possible outcome of a node's test.

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Related concepts

• trunk-based developmentused by · Trunk-based development is a software workflow in which developers frequently integrate small changes into a shared mainline, typically using short-lived or no feature branches.
• GitHub flowused by · GitHub Flow is a lightweight Git branching workflow in which changes are developed on branches, reviewed, and merged into a main branch.
• deployment pipelinealternative to · A sequence of automated or manual stages that builds, tests or validates, packages, and delivers software or models toward deployment.

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