How to use merge checks to enforce your master branch

Your master branch represents the code that you will ship to your customers, and should be protected at all costs. No one intends to ship a bug to a customer on purpose, so having a mechanism in place to catch these subtle bugs is essential to a development team. Code review has been around in some form since the dawn of version control to help keep a close eye on the master branch and ensure code quality is high.

Pull requests in particular provide a way to do peer code reviews and merges as part of a branch-based development workflow. As teams grow sometimes you need to take pull requests a step further to really make sure code is ready to be merged into the family jewel: the master branch.

Read on to learn more about how to use merge checks to enforce your master branch in Bitbucket.

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