What is trunk-based development?
FAQs
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What are the benefits of trunk-based development?
Trunk-based development promotes collaboration among developers, reduces integration conflicts, ensures continuous integration, enables faster feedback loops, and facilitates rapid deployment of changes to production.
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How does trunk-based development differ from feature branching?
In trunk-based development, all developers work on a single mainline branch, committing their changes directly to it. Feature branching involves creating separate branches for each feature or task, which are later merged back into the main branch after completion.
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How do teams manage long-running features or experiments in trunk-based development?
Teams use feature flags or toggles to hide incomplete features or experiments from end-users until they are ready for release. This allows changes to be merged into the mainline branch without impacting the user experience.
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What challenges might teams face when adopting trunk-based development?
Challenges may include ensuring discipline among developers to commit small and frequent changes, managing feature flags effectively, handling dependencies between changes, and ensuring the mainline branch remains stable at all times.
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How does trunk-based development support continuous delivery and continuous deployment?
Trunk-based development enables continuous delivery and deployment by ensuring that changes are always integrated and tested in the mainline branch, allowing for rapid and frequent releases to production environments.