Trunk-Based Development
Explore the trunk-based development model, short-lived branches, and feature flags as a lightweight alternative to Gitflow.
What is Trunk-Based Development?
Trunk-based development is a branching strategy where all developers integrate small changes into a single shared branch (the trunk, usually main) very frequently.
It favors many small merges over long-lived branches.
Why Avoid Long-Lived Branches?
Branches that live for weeks drift far from main, causing painful merges.
- More conflicts the longer a branch lives
- Integration risk is hidden until the end
- Code review queues grow huge
All lessons in this course
- Feature Branch Workflow
- Gitflow Workflow Introduction
- Rebasing vs. Merging
- Trunk-Based Development