3 years ago

by It allows developers to work on the same code base at the same time.

Committing something to Git means that you have changed your code and want to save these changes as a new trusted version.

You can protect the master branch in many ways, like with pre and post hooks, company policy, or by adding more safeguards.

You should keep your code in a separate branch from the master: You are about to add a new feature - Create a new branch.