I’ve heard it thrown around in professional circles and how everybody’s doing it wrong, so… who actually does use it?
For smaller teams
“scaled” trunk based development
Second diagram, yes absolutely.
Short lived (1-2 day) branches, and a strong CI systems to catch regressions.
Be warned, the strength in the CI lies in its capacity to detect when some functionality that previously worked doesn’t work anymore. So, the flow must be green always, and it must evolve as the features evolve. Without good CI you’re destined for failure.
lies in its* capacity
I do, on a 900+ developer mono repo. Works like a charm.
We just have a CD that allows to deliver each project each micro service individually.
Holy crap that’s a lot of devs 😳
Yeah, the biggest problem is keeping up to date.
That’s where the mono repo really shines. We have a folder for common stuff that everyone depends upon. A modification is automatically applied/compatible with every micro service. Really streamline the lib updates problem ^^
You deliver your software on CDs?
Most likely CD is intended to mean continuous delivery, which commonly means automation in processes that deliver your software to it’s target audience.
It does indeed ^^
Out of curiosity, how long are CI and CD runs? And are there any particularities in the way of working for example every PR/MR is created by pair programmers, or the use of josh to cut down on time to clone, stuff like that.
If cloning a repo is an issue, you’re using CI wrong. --shallow has it’s purpose.
Anyway, in my project a complete CI run including local integration tests takes about an hour. We could cut that down by running things in parallel, but we never bothered to add more runners.
I would say, if your tests hold you back, you might want to reconsider testing. Staged testing is an option, or just reevaluate whether you really need all those test cases. Many integration tests are not really testing that much, because 95% of them overlap.
No problem for the cloning.
A CI run is around 8 mins. We just use bazel to determine what to run and to keep cache of unchanged tests.
Here there’s main. You branch off. Do your work. Make a PR to main. Build passes and someone approves, merge to main. Production release is done by tagging main.
The branches are short lived because the units of work we select are small. You have like one pr for an endpoint. You don’t wait until the entire feature with 20 endpoints is ready to merge.
Seems to work fine. I think this is different than trunk based development but honestly I’m not sure I understand trunk.
Seems to work fine. I think this is different than trunk based development but honestly I’m not sure I understand trunk.
Same. But it feels like you’re doing it.
This is enough for most projects.
I haven’t worked on any teams where all members committed “every 24 hours”, and there have always been some branches that live longer than we’d like (usually just unfinished work that got deprioritized but still kept as an eventual “todo”), but most teams I’ve worked on have indeed followed the basic pattern of only one long-lived branch, reviews and CI required prior to merge, and all feature-branches being short-lived.
Team of three. We do the feature branches, pull requests and code reviews. With the right culture, it keeps devs informed about the various projects and gives a nice space to discuss about the practice.
EDIT: we do automated linting and formatting checks too. Keeps things coherent.
Yes. We use SVN. I hate it. I’m trying to build a case to switch to git. We’re a small team, but a growing team
Welcome time traveler. If you’re able to return to your own timeline, buy some Apple stock.
/joking
But I hope your team does migrate. SVN is pretty bad, compared to git.
Do you really need to make a case? Does your company not trust devs? Is there people leading that have no idea about technology? SVN is dead. Many devs won’t touch it. It’s best way to say to new candidates your company is backwards. Many would refuse to work in a company that uses a version control system that has been dead 7 years.
It’s effort to switch, and we don’t benefit from having separate copies of the repo bc we’re so small. No one steps on eachother’s toes, so distributed version control isn’t necessary.
Now, the fact that most devs know git and SVN is dead is not lost on our CTO, but putting the effort to switch over doesn’t provide direct value to the customer, so I have to make the case that switching to git would do enough from a productivity and maintenance standard to effect customers.
But just productivity and maintenance but if your devs start to leave or retire, you’re not gonna get the best quality replacements for them if you’re using outdated tech. No one wants to learn new skills that aren’t going to help with their career growth.
I’m a relatively new hire and we just hired another person 2 weeks ago
We’ve used the “scaled” approach for a whilen and we make tags to release. Every time we have a long-lived branch that isn’t main/master something gets fucked up or we spend an extra few days just to reconcile the conflicts. Luckily we’re service based so supporting multiple versions of a product is very rare.
Team of one here tends to work on master only for very small stuff.
There’s a branch for the next release which will get merged once everything’s done. Occasionally there are smaller branches that fork off of the release branch and get merged back.
Meanwhile master is, most of the time, an old copy of the new release branch so merging goes without issue. Unless there’s a problem in prod, then it gets fixed in master and backported to the feature branch.
I should use feature toggles more (usually
, sometimesif (config_Flag)), occasionally a big feature creeps in and i know management will change it at least 3 times and 2-3 new releases will come out in between…This actually seems like git flow, but easier while achieving the same objectives.
I’ve been a fan of git-flow for a long time. It makes the master consistently stable and production ready, gives mechanisms for hotfixing, patching, releasing, tagging, and regular feature dev with a running develop branch. This tends to be more stable than Wild West commits into dev direct, since you work on a feature in isolation, and then merge the feature in when it’s ready, and keeps prod in its own lane so there’s no risk of a feature accidentally nuking something.
I’m another git-flow fan. Have not encountered a situation that would motivate me to change workflow. We use submodules all over the place, too.
Doesn’t the “scaled trunk-based development” do that too, with feature branches and merge requests? Trunk is your production-ready branch there.
Yeah they’re similar in several ways
Scaled trunk based all year long, every year, every team.
Life is too short to tolerate long-lived branches.
Only for repos where there are no code reviews or releases. E.g small single developer utilities, configuration repos, etc.
Were there at least tests (where possible) if there were no code reviews?
In my experience if there are tests there are code reviews and branches.
Google operates on a trunk model, according to this:
We have hundred of individual repos and use git flow: short lived feature branches but also long lived develop, master and support branches (for LTS releases).
Not saying anything about good or bad, but trunk-based development doesn’t work when the business requires you to have multiple releases under development concurrently.
I don’t think anything works in that situation.
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