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+# Branching Policy
+Distributed version control systems like Git offers developers great flexibility to share and manage code. But a branching policy is crucial to collaborate more easily while keeping track of releases with bug fixes.
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+We consider 5 categories of branches:
+- **develop**: collects the different features. While it is recommended that this branch be as stable as possible, each commit is not considered as a release, but much more as a pre-release.
+- **feature**: dedicated to the development of features (named ***feature/*** *featureName*). These feature branches allow to share code among developers working on a common feature. When a feature is implemented, it must be tested before merging it to the develop branch with a pull request. When a feature branch is merged into develop, it must be suppress from the reposiory. It is recommended that the develop branch be merged into the feature branches on a regular basis to avoid any drift.
+- **master**: corresponds to the last version of stable code. The develop branch is merged in the master branch when a release is ready. Bug fixes from release branches are also merged is the master branch when useful.
+- **release**: dedicated to the releases. One branch per minor version release must be created (named ***release/*** *major_minor_patch*), and a tag must be set. When a bug is fixed on a release, it should be merge is the release branch. Then a new tag is created by increasing the patch digit of the release version.
+- **bug**: dedicated to the bug fix of releases (named ***bug/*** *bugID*).
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