I try to make a point to do so, but am not exactly good at remembering.
The main advantage here in my opinion is not so much having a stable production copy (that’s what releases are for) but that it lets you quickly jump back to the main branch to fix a bug independent of whatever features you happen to be working on.
Put differently, I’m a strong believer that new features should not block bug fixes that are not inherently dependent on that new feature, and doing feature development in branches makes it easier to decouple bug fixes from feature development without having to push incomplete code to your main branch.
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I try to make a point to do so, but am not exactly good at remembering.
The main advantage here in my opinion is not so much having a stable production copy (that’s what releases are for) but that it lets you quickly jump back to the main branch to fix a bug independent of whatever features you happen to be working on.
Put differently, I’m a strong believer that new features should not block bug fixes that are not inherently dependent on that new feature, and doing feature development in branches makes it easier to decouple bug fixes from feature development without having to push incomplete code to your main branch.