Develop your features and fix bugs in feature branches based off your main branch.

Feature branches isolate work in progress from the completed work in the main branch.

Git branches are inexpensive to create and maintain.

Even small fixes and changes should have their own feature branch.

The review that takes place in a pull request is critical for improving code quality.

Avoid merging branches to the main branch without a pull request

The code in your main branch should pass tests, build cleanly, and always be current.

Requires a pull request to merge code. This approach prevents direct pushes to the main branch and ensures discussion of proposed changes.

Automatically adds reviewers when a pull request is created. The added team members review the code and comment on the changes in the pull request.

Requires a successful build to complete a pull request. Code merged into the main branch should build cleanly.