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by jatins 391 days ago
What's the use case for database branching?
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I would say it's primarily testing: either testing schema changes or testing your application changes. Copy-on-Write branches help because you can spin up an environment fast with relevant data from production (anonymized).
If you use a branch per issue you can't have a single staging database. You need multiple databases.