Git WunderFlow

Description

WunderFlow is a Git workflow that tries to make it easier to have multiple ongoing development tracks simultaneously while still allowing clean releases and steady hotfixes. It also makes it easy to show any unfinished work to customers.

Main branches

Develop

Branch for showing new features to customer etc.
Deployed to dev server
Feature / hotfix branches can be merged here anytime for testing purposes
This branch can be reset to main anytime, so no code living only in this branch will end up in production
It is also possible to skip this branch if it is possible to use environment per branch

Main

Integration / QA for next release
Deployed to stage server
Base branch for all new features

Production

Production
Always equal to the actual code currently running on production servers

Development workflow

New feature

Create new branch from main
- feature/#[issue/ticket id]-issueTitle (where # is C for extra/cont dev cases and I for incidents)
Merge to develop for testing / acceptance
Merge to main once finished /accepted (or create merge / review request)

Epic features

Sometimes there might be bigger project that needs to be developed separately and where different features are dependant from each other

Create new epic branch from main epic/[EpicName]
Create all the feature branches that belong to this project from the epic branch feature/[EpicName]/[featureInThisEpic]
Merge feature branches to epic branch, then epic branch to develop for testing
If needed epic branch can be reset to main to clean up experimental features
Only delete feature branches after the epic branch is accepted to main
For release treat epic branch as any other feature branch

Hotfix

Create new branch from production
Hotfix/#[ticket id]-issueTitle (where # is C for extra/cont dev cases and I for issues, so usually I)
Merge to develop for testing
Merge to production for release (or create merge / review request)
Rebase main to production

Release

Merge all accepted / finished feature branches to main (that are not yet merged)
Cleanup finished feature branches
Run tests on main
Tag new release
Merge to production

Examples

Create a new feature and push it to develop for testing

git checkout main
git pull origin main
git checkout -b feature/c1234-adding_this
git add
git commit [... reiterate as many time as needed]
git push origin feature/c1234-adding_this
git checkout develop
git pull origin develop
git merge --no-ff feature/c1234-adding_this
git push origin develop

Create a hotfix

git checkout production
git pull origin production
git checkout -b hotfix/111-fix
git add
git commit [... reiterate as many time as needed]
git push origin hotfix/111-fix
git checkout develop
git pull origin develop
git merge --no-ff hotfix/111-fix
git push origin develop
[test again]
git checkout production
git pull origin production
git merge --no-ff hotfix/111-fix
git push origin production
git rebase production main
git push origin main

Publish a feature to main for the pre-release

git checkout main
git pull origin main
git merge --no-ff feature/c1234-adding_this
git push origin main

Push main to production

git checkout production
git pull origin production
git merge --no-ff main
git tag -a mytag -m “mytag”
git push origin production
git push --tags

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