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smarinova1
smarinova1

Reputation: 49

Gitflow - who tests master branch and who tests release branch

I want to propose Gitflow for our new web application. We have QA environment where product acceptance testing is done before release. I want to know which branch should be deployed to QA - release branch or master? Which branch should be deployed to production? If we deploy and test the release branch and then merge it back to master who will test master?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 746

Answers (2)

Philip Pittle
Philip Pittle

Reputation: 12295

The release branch is meant to be sent through QA validation and deployment process.

So your release branch would be sent to QA environment. Once validation is complete, release branch would be deployed. Once deployment is successful, release branch would be merged into master.

master should always represent the code that is currently running on production. That way if you needed to issue a hotfix while the current release branch is being validated, you could branch off of master. Or if for some reason you needed to redeploy a production instance you would deploy master.

Upvotes: 5

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1324347

want to know which branch should be deployed to QA - release branch or master?

I would argue release: QA should test what comes before what you end up deploying.

Which branch should be deployed to production?

master, the one where you tag the release with its name.

Upvotes: 0

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