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# Branching strategy

Ansible modules for Dell Unity follows a scaled trunk branching strategy where short-lived branches are created off of the main branch. When coding is complete, the branch is merged back into main after being approved in a pull request code review.

## Branch naming convention

|  Branch Type |  Example                          |  Comment                                  |
|--------------|-----------------------------------|-------------------------------------------|
|  main        |  main                             |                                           |
|  Release     |  release-1.0                      |  hotfix: release-1.1 patch: release-1.0.1 |
|  Feature     |  feature-9-vol-support            |  "9" referring to GitHub issue ID         |
|  Bug Fix     |  bugfix-110-fix-duplicates-issue  |  "110" referring to GitHub issue ID       |


## Steps for working on a release branch

1. Fork the repository.
2. Create a branch off of the main branch. The branch name should follow [branch naming convention](#branch-naming-convention).
3. Make your changes and commit them to your branch.
4. If other code changes have merged into the upstream main branch, perform a rebase of those changes into your branch.
5. Open a [pull request](https://github.com/dell/ansible-unity/pulls) between your branch and the upstream main branch.
6. Once your pull request has merged, your branch can be deleted.