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-title: I think I was completely wrong about Git workflows
-url: i-was-wrong-about-git-workflows.html
-date: 2023-05-23T12:00:00+02:00
-type: post
-draft: false
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-
-I have been using some approximation of [Git
-Flow](https://jeffkreeftmeijer.com/git-flow/) for years now and never really
-questioned it to be honest. When I create a repo I create develop branch and set
-it as default one and then merge to master from there. Seems reasonable enough.
-
-One thing that I have learned is that long living branches are the devil.  They
-always end up making a huge mess when they need to be merged eventually into
-master. So by that reason, what is the develop branch if not the longest living
-feature branch. And from my personal experience there was never a situation
-where I wasn’t sweating bullets when I had to merge develop back to master.
-
-This realisation started to give me pause. So why the hell am I doing this, and
-is there a better way. Well the solution was always there. And it comes in a
-form of [git tags](https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Basics-Tagging).
-
-So what are git tags? Git tags are references to specific points in a Git
-repository's history. They are used to mark important milestones, such as
-releases or significant commits, making it easier to identify and access
-specific versions of a project.
-
-Somehow we have all hijacked the meaning of the master branch that it has to be
-the most releasable version of code. And this is also where the confusing about
-versioning the software kicks in. Because master branch implicitly says that we
-are dealing with the rolling release type of a software. And by having a develop
-branch we are hacking around this confusion. With a separation of develop and
-master we lock functionalities into place and forcing a stable vs development
-version of the software.
-
-But if that is true and the long living branches are the devil then why have
-develop at all. I think that most of this comes to how continuous integration is
-being done. There usually is no granular access to tags and CD software deploys
-what is present on a specific branch, may that be master for production and
-develop for staging. This is a gross simplification and by having this in place
-we have completely removed tagging as a viable option to create a fix point in
-software cycle that says, this is the production ready code.
-
-One cool thing about tags are that you can checkout a specific tag. So they
-behave very similarly as branches in that regard. And you don’t have the
-overhead of having two mainstream branches.
-
-So what is the solution? One approach is to use development workflow, where all
-changes are made on the smaller branches and continuously merged into
-master. Where the software is ready to be pushed to production you tag the
-master branch. This approach eliminates the need for long-lived branches and
-simplifies the development process. It also encourages developers to make small,
-incremental changes that can be tested and deployed quickly. However, this
-approach may not be suitable for all projects or teams that heavily rely on
-automated deployment based on branch names only.
-
-This also requires that developers always keep production in mind. No more
-living on an island of the develop branch. All your actions and code need to be
-ready to meet production standards on a much smaller timescale.
-
-I think that we have complicated the workflow in an honest attempt to make
-things more streamlined but in the process of doing this, we have inadvertently
-made our lives much more complicated.
-
-In conclusion, it's important to re-evaluate our workflows from time to time to
-see if they still make sense and if there are better alternatives available.
-Long-living branches can be problematic, and using tags to mark important
-milestones can simplify the development process.
-