Augmenting development workflows

Handling version control is only a part of the development workflow. There is also work management, code review and audit, running automated tests, and generating builds.

Many of these steps can be aided by specialized tools. Many of them offer Git integration. For example, code review can be managed using Gerrit, requiring that each change passes a review before being made public. Another example is setting up development environments so that pushing changes to the public repository can automatically close tickets in the issue tracker, based on the patterns in the commit messages. This can be done with server-side hooks or with the hosting service’s Webhooks.

A repository can serve as a gateway, running automated tests (for example, with the help of Jenkins’ or Hudson’s continuous integration service) and deploying changes to ensure quality environments only after passing all of these tests. Another repository can be configured...