Branching Strategies

Understand branches and learn how to work on multiple features simultaneously.

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Branches are lightweight pointers to specific commits. They let you work on multiple features or fixes independently without affecting the main codebase.

Branches are what make Git truly shine for collaboration. Because branches are just pointers — not full copies of the code — creating one is nearly instant and takes almost no disk space. This encourages a workflow where you create a branch for every feature, bug fix, or experiment, knowing you can always discard it or merge it back cleanly.

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