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Feature branches

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- [Instructor] In this lesson, we'll walk through how a contributor establishes a feature branch to build out the code changes required to resolve an issue. Once the feature branch has been completed, we'll then see how to integrate that feature branch with the developed branch as defined by the GitFlow workflow. So here we are within GitLab as a contributor, and we're going to establish a new feature branch to resolve one of the issues that our contributor is going to work on, so there it is, Missing Feature A. We're gonna drill down into that issue and here you'll see this dropdown. We can click on that, and we can use the dropdown to create a new feature branch. You'll see that GitLab provides us with a default branch name that contains the issue number and the name of the issue. The next part's pretty important. It's asking us to define the branch that we would like to use as far as the source for our new feature branch, so we're going to branch off of develop. That's important…

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