Continuous Integration and Feature Branching are both very popular ways of organizing work in a development team, but in most cases they are mutually exclusive. This is contrary to what many, perhaps most, people think. In this video, Dave Farley explains the difference and why the two are largely mutually exclusive and why CI is technically the better approach.

Software development, any development, is always about compromise. The compromise underlying CI is that to avoid conflicts, we aim to integrate our code with our colleagues' as "continuously" as possible. That is, we cannot afford to wait until we are finished. If we have two or more copies of information and we start changing them, the copies will diverge. Eventually they will reach a point where they are no longer compatible with each other, and it will therefore become increasingly difficult to re-integrate them. CI was invented to fix this problem. This video explains how it works.

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