Show HN: Why you should not use feature branches

Re:Show HN: Why you should not use feature branches by kennethh on Friday April 19, 2019 @07:18AM (#19698571)

If one read Martin Fowler about feature branching, https://martinfowler.com/bliki/FeatureBranch.html and articles from Jez Humble both agree on that one should use trunk based development and use feature toggles in most cases for development.

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Re:Show HN: Why you should not use feature branches by AstralStorm on Friday April 19, 2019 @08:07AM (#19698836)

Sure, do end up with hundreds of commits where any given combination of feature flags fails, except sometimes the default.

Seriously, this is the quintessential Gentoo Linux problem. Nobody can test all the combinations making the flags almost instantly useless. (And some essentially forced on.)

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Re:Show HN: Why you should not use feature branches by jpdel on Friday April 19, 2019 @10:03AM (#19699679)

Agree that feature flags count should not explode because you can never test all combinations. Feature toggles should drive the life span of a feature from start of development to "adopted and becomes the default" or "rejected and we scrap it all out". At the end of the day the number of feature toggles should remain relatively low.

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Re:Show HN: Why you should not use feature branches by timw4mail on Friday April 19, 2019 @08:54AM (#19699151)

Having used Gentoo for a long time I haven't seen it be that big of an issue.

But I can definitely see too many feature flags leading to a byzantine web of untestable combinations.

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