Organization

Have you ever wondered what kind of methodology you should use to label the releases of your software? Many projects use a structure with three numbers, each separated by a dot. I have good news for you: This structure is very common and well documented. It’s called Semantic Versioning and you’ll find all the details about it here. Building Version Identifiers with SemVer Version numbers are structured according to the X.Y.Z. structure. X stands for the major version, Y for the minor version and Z for the patch version. ...

Almost all programming projects work with some kind of version control. When I started to work with Git, I used the tool also directly for my private projects. But especially at the beginning I found it hard to structure my commits and branches in a practical way. For this reason I would like to show you some common strategies today, the so-called Git Workflows. Simple Workflow The simple workflow consists of a single master branch. There is only this one branch to which changes are pushed. This workflow is only suitable for very small projects, e.g. private ones, where only you work on yourself. As the team grows, this workflow becomes very messy and you’ re going to have to deal with a lot of merge conflicts. ...