Our Source Control Best Practices

We’ve noticed that few organizations outright describe how they do source control. Planning how you’ll work with source control is not always a straightforward answer, and it will be different based on the size of a software engineering team and the unique problems they face.

Seeing an example might be helpful - even if some things won't work for your team. This post outlines some of the specifics about how we manage source control as Doppler. We don’t think how our team works should be a secret. The more we share about our operational methodologies, the more we can foster an environment of learning and improvement within our team and across the broader industry.

This post highlights some of the components we think are the most helpful/important to us. Some of this may seem really basic. However, we hope comparing with what you may be doing is still beneficial.

We use specific language in our review comments to indicate the action we expect. We - did - not - invent - this . However, we have implemented this idea in our own way and found that it works well for us. Check out our short post for more details on how we use Code Review Comment Prefixes for Clearer Feedback .

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