Continuous Delivery Office Hours Ep.3: Branching strategies

Steve Fenton discusses the importance of choosing the right branching strategy to support Continuous Delivery, emphasizing the role of Continuous Integration as a prerequisite. He critiques complex branching strategies like Gitflow for their potential to create coordination overhead and merge conflicts, advocating instead for trunk-based development, which simplifies the process by committing directly to the main branch and using feature toggles. This approach facilitates small batch sizes, frequent integration, and automated checks, enabling teams to discover and resolve issues more efficiently. Fenton highlights research from the DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) group, suggesting that limiting to three or fewer short-lived branches can yield similar benefits in software delivery performance. The discussion is part of the Continuous Delivery Office Hours series, offering insights into effective software delivery practices through various platforms.

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