Recipe 2.5 Creating the hotfix branch

Problem

An issue has been found with the production system that requires a bugfix.

Solution

Hotfix branches are created from the masterbranch. For example, say version 1.2 is the current production release running live and causing troubles due to a severe bug. But changes on develop are yet unstable. We may then branch off a hotfix branch and start fixing the problem.

$ git checkout -b hotfix-1.2.1 master

$ ./bump-version.sh 1.2.1

$ git commit -a -m "Bumped version number to 1.2.1"

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