Ship / Show / Ask

Ship/Show/Ask is a branching strategy that combines the features of Pull Requests with the ability to keep shipping changes. Changes are categorized as either Ship (merge into mainline without review), Show (open a pull request for review, but merge into mainline immediately), or Ask (open a pull request for discussion before merging).

Rouan is a software engineer and technical leader, who helps build outstanding teams and high-quality software. He's worked in a variety of technology stacks for companies in the financial services, education, leisure and energy sectors (including as a consultant at Thoughtworks). He cares about keeping things simple, building inclusive teams, and writing about what he learns.

Pull Requests have been widely adopted by many software teams. Some people love them, and some people long for the days of Continuous Integration – where you never created branches and your team put their changes together all the time.

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