1.8Interactive Exercise: Map Your Branching Strategy

Step-by-Step

# Step 1: Examine your current project's branching structure
git branch -a

# Step 2: Look at the recent merge history to understand the pattern
git log --oneline --graph --decorate --all -20

# Step 3: Count how many long-lived branches exist
git branch -r | wc -l

# Step 4: Check the age of feature branches
git for-each-ref --sort=-committerdate refs/remotes/ \
  --format='%(committerdate:short) %(refname:short)'

# Step 5: Measure your average PR pipeline time
# (Check your CI dashboard for this metric)