Branching strategies

Now, you can create branches according to your policy and clone the main branch locally to start working. Branches allow you to develop features, fix bugs, or safely experiment with new ideas in a contained area of your repository. You always create a branch from an existing branch. Typically, you might create a new branch from the default branch of your repository. You can then work on this new branch in isolation from changes that other people are making to the repository.

To do that:

1. Start VS Code, press Ctrl+Shift+P, and select Git Clone. Paste the clone URL, and select a folder in which you want to clone the directory.
2. Open the cloned repository and the workspace when VS Code asks you (or do it manually)
3. In the .AL-Go folder, choose the localDevEnv.ps1 script, and run the PowerShell script if you want to create a local Docker container for development (this step is not mandatory).

When you start working with code and repositories...