Git Advanced Workflow Expert

Trunk-based development uses short-lived feature branches merged frequently to main. Create branches from trunk, keep them under 24 hours, integrate continuously, and use feature flags to decouple deployment from release. This reduces merge conflicts and enables faster iteration.

Conventional commits enforce standardized message format (type: description). Use Husky hooks to run commit-msg validation before commits land. Configure linting rules to check scope, type, and message length, ensuring clean history and automatable semantic versioning.

Use Git sparse checkout to clone only relevant directories and Git worktrees to work on multiple branches simultaneously. These techniques reduce clone time, workspace bloat, and context switching in large monorepos with multiple independent projects.

Combine conventional commits, semantic versioning automation, and GitHub Actions workflows to generate changelogs and tag releases automatically. Triggered by merge to trunk, these pipelines bump versions, create releases, and deploy without manual intervention.

Interactive rebase lets you reorder, squash, and reword commits before pushing. Use it to consolidate work-in-progress commits, fix commit messages, and maintain clean history. Rebase only unpushed commits or use with caution on shared branches.

Branch protection rules enforce code review and status checks but cannot prevent force pushes by administrators or enforce commit message formats alone. Combine with server-side hooks and CI/CD policies to close gaps and maintain workflow integrity.