Question

A developer is starting work on a new feature using GitHub Flow. Their teammates have merged several pull requests into the main branch since the developer last pulled changes. Before creating their feature branch, what should the developer do to ensure their new branch starts from the most current, stable code?

Accepted Answer

Update their local main branch with the latest changes, then create the feature branch from main

Answer

Create the feature branch immediately from their outdated local main, since GitHub Flow does not require syncing

Answer

Create the feature branch from another teammate's unmerged feature branch to get their newest work

Answer

Commit directly to main first to record a checkpoint, then branch from that commit