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Ship / Show / Ask

A modern branching strategy that combines the features of Pull Requests with the ability to keep shipping changes. When should you merge straight to main? When should you open a PR? The answer is: it depends.

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I'm a software engineer and technical leader. I help teams ship high-quality software — and share what I learn along the way.

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