The master branch will represent production-ready code.

Master Branch – Once code is added to the master branch it is ready for deployment.

Hotfix branches are created to move code from the develop branch to the master branch, and are then deleted after master has been updated.

Our environment has two main branches: master (or main) branch and develop branch. Some of these changes are ready for deployment to a production environment, while some are under development and testing.Īt Key2 Consulting, we use a branch-based workflow to help pick the changes that are ready for deployment.

There are often many code changes in between releases when working on a project.

We will cover (in this post) the basics of how to get a local copy, push code changes to the development branch, and then pull those changes into the master branch. Our GitHub workflow takes advantage of Visual Studio Code (VS Code). In this blog post, we share a basic workflow we have adopted to start using GitHub as our project source control.

If you are accustomed to working with TFS, the transition to GitHub can be confusing. Now that Microsoft has acquired GitHub, our team here at Key2 Consulting is starting the transition from Team Foundation Server (TFS) to GitHub for our database source control.

Using github with visual studio