Feature Branching and Pull Requests – PwP Episode 14

Challenges

  • Managing code integration with feature branching workflows.
  • Ensuring code reviews are efficient and thorough during pull requests.
  • Avoiding delays and merge conflicts in collaborative development.

Solutions

  • Implementing feature branching to isolate work and streamline integration.
  • Using pull requests for collaborative code reviews and quality assurance.
  • Establishing guidelines to prevent merge conflicts and promote smooth collaboration.

Benefits

  • Improved team productivity with clear workflows for code changes.
  • Higher code quality through structured review processes.
  • Reduced risk of integration issues and enhanced project stability.

In this episode, Jeffrey will go through pull requests, which of course come off feature branches. He will walk you through the entire process from creating an issue for a particular change to a code base and then branch from that issue. Working from that branch, he will talk about the sequencing of things- private builds, test-driving a change, etc.

Code sample: https://github.com/jeffreypalermo/onion-architecture-dotnet-6/

You will learn the process of committing code back into the branch, followed by creating a pull request to help do some evaluations. You will learn the importance of a formal checklist in the evaluation of a pull request

After evaluating, merging, and completing the pull request, you will learn how to look at how the integration builds and operates on the feature branch as well as on the master branch.