Best Practices for Managing Feature Branches

Feature branches are a popular source code management tactic used to manage and coordinate changes made by development teams. Developers create a feature branch is created from the main branch (typically master) and then merge the changes made to that feature branch back to the main branch when they are complete. This isolates changes made for a specific feature and limits the effect of feature enhancements on other team members until the change is ready.

When using feature branches, it's rare to...