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Why? I thought some companies do not do branching? They have their own processes? Some went nuts with the whole turn "on/off" features (so no branching). I th

Why? I thought some companies do not do branching? They have their own processes? Some went nuts with the whole turn "on/off" features (so no branching). I thought some team within Google also don't do branching? Always HEAD?

wahnfrieden 15y ago
We use git at my workplace without branching, and we practice continuous deployment. The advantage is that you spend less time merging, and you ship things in shorter intervals and smaller increments, an important part of CD. Some of us do use local branching, but we don't push to remote branches.
thurn 15y ago
Facebook doesn't branch, all of their code is written against trunk.
- jonstjohn 15y ago
  is this true? I'd like to hear more about this? How can all code be committed to trunk? Don't they need to branch for releasing at least?
  - thurn 15y ago
    Oh, yeah, they branch for releasing. That is true.
6ren 15y ago
John Carmack recently said he implements alternatives "in parallel" so he can compare them, instead of by branching http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3266741 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3266741 [my definition: branching is non-code ad hoc compile-time polymorphism at an arbitrary set of points]