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CD Office Hours Ep.3: Branching strategies

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Show Notes

Your branching strategy can support Continuous Delivery, or make it an impossible goal. Teams should assess the impact of how they branch on their ability to deliver software at all times, and that means there are some branching techniques that make software delivery more like walking in the dark through a field of rakes. Listen […]

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