Git Flow Is A Bad Idea • Dave Farley • GOTO 2021

We’re so pleased to announce that we’ve teamed up with Dave Farley, author of “Continuous Delivery” and frequent GOTO Conferences speaker, for a monthly video series featuring ideas about continuous delivery, DevOps, test-driven development, BDD, software engineering and software development in general. Find plenty more from Dave on his Continuous Delivery YouTube channel: Dave Farley - Continuous Delivery & DevOps Pioneer, Award-winning Author, Founder & Director of Continuous Delivery Ltd. ABSTRACT What is GitFlow and why is it a bad idea if you want to practice Continuous Delivery or Continuous Integration? GitFlow is a feature branching strategy that adds several extra layers of complexity. GitFlow is bad when we need fast feedback and a clear picture of the quality and ’releasability’ of our work, so how do we adapt to get that faster feedback and a clearer picture? In this episode Dave Farley describes GitFlow, Git feature branch-based GitHubF