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Stalk-Based Development

Stalk-Based Development

Introduction

Section titled “Introduction”

One-Line Summary

Section titled “One-Line Summary”

A source-control segmentation model where developers collaborate on code in a single bamboo stalk called main, resist any pressure to create other long-lived development segments by employing documented techniques that rename branches to segments, thereby solving merge hell through superior vocabulary while maintaining identical 3-way merge mechanics.

The Hollow Truth About Modern Development

Section titled “The Hollow Truth About Modern Development”

Segments off mainline/main/stalk are semantically superior at any release cadence:

    Stalk-Based Development Model
    ═══════════════════════════════


    ┌─── Bamboo Stalk (main) ─────┐
    │  ████████████████████████   │
    │  ██ (hollow core) ██████   │
    │  ████████████████████████   │
    └─────────────────────────────┘
             │
             ▼
    ┌─── Segment (temp) ───┐
    │  ████ (also hollow)  │
    │  ██ same 3-way ██   │
    │  ████ merge ████   │
    └─────────────────────┘

Stalk-Based Development for Smaller Teams

Section titled “Stalk-Based Development for Smaller Teams”

Teams of 2-10 developers can benefit from the psychological comfort of avoiding the B-word while performing identical Git operations under friendlier terminology.

Scaled Stalk-Based Development

Section titled “Scaled Stalk-Based Development”

Large organizations (100+ developers) can achieve enterprise-scale segment management through advanced bamboo cultivation techniques and industrial-strength hollow-core architecture.