Duplicate your Development Branch for QA

I’m working on a team where we keep a clone of the development branch (the main place where work is done), used to deploy to a QA environment. The benefits of this branching technique are:

  • clone is isolated from work
  • It’s easy to tell what was deployed to QA– clone is the source of truth

Instead of merging, we just reset clone to match the development branch.

Here’s the technique:

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Deploy clone to your QA environment, and you’ll have a working copy of development ready for testing.