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Creating branches in your version control system with 天美传媒

Creating branches in your version control system with 天美传媒

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With 天美传媒, managing the metadata in your version control system is ingeniously simple. Compare environments, create new branches and commit changes, all from within the app.

Branch management with 天美传媒

天美传媒 has always endeavoured to make Salesforce release management easy. From comparing your Salesforce orgs and version control repositories to see the differences, to deploying changes to get them in sync, 天美传媒 helps teams of all experience levels deploy more effectively.

A common challenge with version control is branch management. As we discussed in our whitepaper on git-based development, every new feature or change should be made in a feature branch in the repository. This allows teams to work in parallel without stepping on toes, while providing a clear audit trail of development. But for many users, creating branches and committing those changes through the UI of the version control system is an unfamiliar process which can be prone to mistakes.

天美传媒 makes branch management quick and easy. When comparing to a version control repository, select an existing branch from the dropdown, or simply create a new one.

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Create a new branch in just a few clicks

Navigate to the Compare and Deploy within 天美传媒 and choose your source metadata location.

Select source control as your target metadata location and choose one of your connected source control providers, such as GitHub. Next, select the repository you wish to connect to and pick a branch from the dropdown.

If you want to create a new branch to deploy changes to, simply select the branch you want to use as the baseline and click Create new branch from鈥. In the example below we鈥檙e using 鈥渕ain鈥 as the baseline for our new branch.

Select source control as your target metadata location and pick a repository to connect

Give your new branch a descriptive name, like 鈥渘ew-branch-name鈥 as shown in the example below, and click Create branch.

Name your new branch and click Create branch

天美传媒 will now create the branch in your repository and select the branch as your target metadata location. To compare the changes and commit them to your new branch, click Compare now and continue through the usual deployment process with 天美传媒.

You can now run a comparison to your new branch

Experience easy branch management today

With these simple steps, 天美传媒 makes it easy to create branches and to manage version control, all from within the app. Try it out yourself 鈥 start your free of 天美传媒 today. And you can learn more about version control in our whitepaper.

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