Git Best Practices for Team Collaboration

Master Git workflows, branching strategies, and commit conventions for effective team collaboration.

Git Collaboration Essentials

Working in a team? These Git best practices will save you from merge conflicts and confusion.

Key Practices

1. Meaningful Commit Messages

# Bad
git commit -m "fixed stuff"

# Good
git commit -m "fix: resolve authentication bug in login flow"

2. Branch Naming Convention

  • feature/user-authentication
  • bugfix/navbar-overflow
  • hotfix/security-patch

3. Pull Before Push

Always sync with remote before pushing your changes.

Branching Strategies

We'll explore Git Flow, GitHub Flow, and Trunk-Based Development.