Optimize your branching and build strategies by checking your workspaces when defining new builds and adopting effective naming conventions. Understand the advantages of using branches over labels, know the right moments to branch in Git, and foster a collaborative environment to swiftly address build issues.
When defining a build, you should always check the Workspace tab. Only the workspace relevant to your build should be included.
You should always follow a naming standard when naming your builds. This helps you identify their purpose at a glance.
Although labels are useful they can be changed after they have been created with no way to tell that they have been changed.
The best way to handle continuous development and deployment is following GitHub Flow. The basic idea is to always deploy from main , and to create a feature branch for every feature. When the feature is complete, it is merged back to main via a pull request, which provides a trigger for other developers to build.
Using this strategy, main is always production-ready and deployable.
Have you ever looked at the list of branches in your repository and not know what they were for?
Consistent naming conventions in source control systems help improve collaboration, clarity, and organization across teams. Using meaningful branch names with PBI numbers enhances traceability and reduces merge debt.
If you are using Azure DevOps, there's an awesome Hosted Build Server option you can use to perform your builds with little to no setup. But if you're working on a project that has continuous integration and a long build time, it's not long before those build minutes start to add up.
If you or someone on your team has broken the build, the whole team should swarm to fix the problem immediately.