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I am new to version control. I often hear these words Merging and Branching. I also see different developers working in different branches.
Can someone explain the flow on this. What is the difference between Merging and Branching. When to go for Merging and Branching
Branching is about isolating a development effort in a specific history, parallel to the main one.
See “When should you branch?“: you branch when you cannot commit on the current branch (because it would break the work of your colleagues)
Merging is about reconciling two different branches.
You merge when you want to take into account in your branch the changes of the other branch you need to merge.
The workflow depends on the tools.
SVN offers either merge-based development or trunk-based development.
Tools with easier branching capabilities (like Git for instance) offer a workflow based on the various development lifecycle steps: