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In this video.

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Let's talk about another important concept when it comes to gifts, and that is branches.

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What is it and why should we care about it?

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Well, a branch is a pointer to a snapshot of your changes.

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So what does that mean?

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Let's say a key that we are working with a team or we are working alone by building an application.

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In that way, you need to have a branch, meaning that a branch represents a specific portion of your

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application.

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Let's say that you have a branch for fixing back and then a branch for adding new features.

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Let me show you with this diagram.

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Let's say that we are about to develop a web application for a client.

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Before we start, we need to initialize our projects as gate so that we can keep track about the version.

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So you're going to have your main branch because as soon as you initialize gate, you're going to have

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your main branch.

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And this is a branch that you are going to push your code to.

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So let's say that we have finished deploy our application, that is for version one.

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It is in production.

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So any time we make changes to our code, meaning that is going to update the main one.

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And that's the key that for that update, it contains some bugs, but as soon as we update, it's going

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to affect the final one, meaning the end user going to have some difficulties accessing it.

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Again.

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Let's take it that we are working with a team, meaning that all the team members, they are going to

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contribute to the final project that is in the main branch.

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So how are we going to handle that?

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So to achieve that, we call something branches.

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So before we start, we need to create a branch for that application.

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The first branch that we can create is called fixing error.

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So this branch is going to contain all the errors that you might encounter, which has been fixed.

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The next branch that we can create is called features, and this one contains any upcoming features

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of our project that we want to publish.

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So let's say that for the first part, we are working towards fixing that error.

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So all the code will be inside this branch without affecting the final one.

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So after we finish fixing it, then we can push to the final one, call the main branch.

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So at this point, the end user is going to see the final result.

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Then if you want to add new feature, definitely we are going to add the future to the features branch.

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So after we test and everything is okay, then we push it to the main branch and let's take it that

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we are also working in a team.

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So you're going to have the main branch and then irrespective of the developers is going to work towards

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this branches without affecting the main branch.

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So after all the code has been finalized, then you can go ahead and then push it to the main branch.

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So before you begin developing your application, you need to have this roadmap.