Which practice helps ensure that updates from multiple developers are combined in a pipeline with minimal conflicts before advancing to further stages?
Merging updates in a shared branch at regular intervals, validated by automated checks
Overwriting existing branches to incorporate new code from contributors
Maintaining long-lived independent branches until the project is almost done
Waiting to combine changes until all updates pass a manual review
Merging updates in a shared branch at regular intervals allows issues to surface early. Automated checks help detect errors quickly, sparing time and effort downstream. Keeping branches independent until the project is near completion can create large, challenging merges. Delaying changes until fully manual tests are done introduces a risk of discovering conflicts late. Overwriting existing branches removes prior work and ignores collaboration guidelines.
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