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Team composition and members roles

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Team composition and members roles

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- [Instructor] A key contributor to successful team collaboration with Git is understanding the structure of your team and each team member's role within the team. Teams come in all shapes and sizes, so it's important that your team is ideally arranged for working with Git. In terms of Git, individuals participating on a software development team fall into two primary, different roles. The first of these roles is a repository integrator or maintainer. These individuals have commit access to the repository and are responsible for managing pull requests made by contributors. Contributors do not have direct commit access to the repository but are able to clone the repository and make commits to their own public copy. Once finished with a feature, they will request that an integrator or maintainer pull the most recent changes into the central repository via a pull request. Git is meant for teams of all sizes. However, the size and arrangement of a team will change how you work with the…

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