In order to make it possible to follow the project's [[Git Branch Management]] strategies, the branches had to be set up to follow this paradigm.  To do this, the following steps were performed.  This step ensure that future merges from lower branches would only contain the newer code choices and that from a "future merges" perspective everything previous to this point would have been considered as "already merged".

In order to make it possible to follow the project's [[Git Branch Management]] strategies, the branches had to be set up to follow this paradigm.  To do this, the following steps were performed.  This step ensure that future merges from lower branches would only contain the newer code choices and that from a "future merges" perspective everything previous to this point would have been considered as "already merged".