FC0-U71 Software Development Concepts Practice Question
A developer is working on a new feature and creates a copy of the main codebase to work in isolation. Later, this copy is merged back into the main branch. Which version control concept describes this copy?
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Branch
Branching creates a separate line of development, allowing isolated work on a feature before merging.
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Merge
Why it's wrong here
Merge is the act of combining branches, not the copy itself.
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Branch
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A branch is a separate copy of the codebase for parallel development.
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Commit
Why it's wrong here
A commit saves changes to the repository, but does not create a separate line.
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Pull request
Why it's wrong here
A pull request is a request to merge changes from one branch to another.
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