High-level Process Lifecycle and Role of Pull Requests

Pull Requests (or whatever their equivalents are called in your favorite Git distribution) are a norm. Most of us have adopted them as the primary way of reviewing and accepting changes that will ultimately be deployed to production. They work hand-in-hand with feature branches.

🔍 Some of you might cringe thinking about pull requests. You might prefer trunk-based development, and work directly on master. Even if that is your preference, I still recommend you go through this chapter and do all the exercises. If processes were manual, getting pull requests merged would be a slow, hands-on, and time-consuming effort. If you use pull requests, you should use ...