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Branch naming

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- [Instructor] Another important standard for teams to consider, is branch naming conventions. Your team will be using branching when working with git, which raises the question of how your team will structure branch names. Keeping branch names short, consistent and informative is best. Let's take a look at how you can do that. Here we have some examples of branches. Notice how we're using short tokens within the name of the branch to convey information. If we look at the first branch name, we can discern that the branch is related to a bug, so that depicts the type of change. We also can see that it applies to change number 123, and that this change is related to an issue with the menu. It's amazing how those three short tokens can convey so much information. I bet you can take a look at the next branch name and guess what's happening. We are adding a new feature that has change number 124, and it's going to be dealing with the email portion of the system. Basically, use short tokens…

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