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by dusted 1442 days ago
Make a tag where code is before you go out of office, for emergency restore.

I'd make it clear that everyone is responsible that their own changes work, regardless of what came into the system before it, there are no excuses.

Forbid merge commits (because that's more complex than they can handle).

When a dev wants to submit their code, they have to rebase it first, tough luck, and they have to get it to work again, if anything breaks, their own stuff or what came before, it's their problem, they fix it before submitting.

All tests must pass before code is submitted.

If someone must drive standups while you're away, pick the least technically competent person for that job, because they will then spend some time not doing damage and you don't want the hotshot maverick setting the direction.

Go enjoy your holiday.

Go figure why I'm not in management ;)