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Step 1: Linear Task

Head to Linear and check the tasks that have been assigned to you. Toggle the status to “In Progress” once you have began working on it.

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Step 2: Create a feature branch

Toggle over to the preview branch by running:
zsh
git switch preview
Make sure preview is up-to-date by running:
zsh
git pull
Then, create your own feature branch by running:
zsh
git checkout -b <feature-description>
You will then be on your own feature branch and can make commits.

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Step 3: Make code changes

Make code changes necessary for your tasks on your own feature branch. Remember to commit often for each relevant code portion with meaningful commit messages!

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Step 4: Push your changes

Once you have tested your changes and ensured that they are functional, merge changes from preview into your local branch by running:
zsh
git merge origin/preview
There may be merge conflicts at this point if the files that you have been working on has been modified. You will then need to resolve these merge conflicts and make sure that both your changes and the incoming changes are there. Then, you can push your changes from your local branch by running:
zsh
git push origin <feature-description>

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Step 5: Create a Pull Request (PR)

Go to “Pull requests” and click “New pull request”. Then, create a pull request from your feature branch to preview. Specifically, preview should be the base, and your feature branch should be the compare. Below is an example:

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Step 6: Request for Review

Once you have created your PR, tag your team leads as reviewers, and send a message in your Slack subteam channel to ask for another team member to review your PR. Team members should look out for these messages, and add themselves as a reviewer. Also, be sure to change the status of the Linear task to “In Review”.

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Step 7: Address comments

After reviewing your PR, reviewers may leave feedbacks about your PR. You may need to commit and push further changes before the PR is approved.

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Step 8: Merge the PR into preview

Once the PR has been approved, a team lead will do a “squash and merge” on the PR. Then, the status of the Linear task should be updated to Done.

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Step 9: Merge to main

For a new release, team leads will make a PR from preview into main. This will be done with “Create a merge commit”.