Feature Branches in Practice — Your Daily Workflow

Theory is great. But right now you need to know: how do I actually create a branch, do work on it, and get it back to main without breaking anything?

This is the hands-on lesson. By the end, you'll have a reliable daily workflow for feature branches that you can follow yourself and teach your AI agent to follow. No guesswork, no panic, just a repeatable process.

Creating a Feature Branch

Always start from an up-to-date main. If you branch from stale code, you're setting yourself up for merge conflicts later.

# Make sure you're on main and it's up to date
git checkout main
git pull origin main
 
# Create and switch to a new branch
git checkout -b feature/add-user-profile

The -b flag creates the branch and switches to it in one step. Without it, git checkout just