Branching and merging

So far, we have been adding changes sequentially to the repository, resulting in a history with a linear structure. But what if you, or your team, want to work on different features/multiple tasks at the same time? If we continue with our current workflow, the Git commit history is going to look disjointed:

Here, we have commits relating to bug fixes interleaved between commits relating to features. This is not ideal. Git branches were created to deal with this issue.