End

Estimated time: 10 minutes

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Episodes after this End page are optional. Your instructor may choose to teach these episodes if time permits. Otherwise feel free to work through the episodes in your own time.

Decision Time

What will the working practices look like for your repositories? Things to think about:

• Who needs access to your repos? Should there be a second admin to help you? Review Episode 1 Repository Access.
• What branching model will you use? Review Episode 3 Branching Models.
• Will you use forks with your branching model? Review Episode 3 Forks
• Who presses the merge button as part of a Pull Request, the developer or the reviewer?
• Will you need Issue and Pull Request templates or other project management features such as milestones and Projects?
• What automated tests might help your development process?

Don’t try and make all these decisions at once! Revisit the material and seek out further advice if needed before deciding. Remember you can change your mind anytime and evolve your working practices as your projects grow.

Where to next?

We’ve covered a lot over the last two workshops but there is always more to learn especially when it comes to GitHub!

• Microsoft Learn has a wide variety of GitHub training.
• In this lesson you saw automated testing of PRs using GitHub Actions which you might like to explore more.
• The optional rebasing episode guides you through rebasing a branch.
• Your Pull Requests ran automated tests using pre-commit checks which you can set up locally to run before you commit. The optional pre-commit episode outlines how to set up some basic checks.