These heavy equipment operator training schools are designed to give someone who knows little or nothing about the trade the opportunity to earn while they learn. The average length of an operating engineer apprenticeship is three to four years.
Conceptually, a merge branches operation has four steps: 1  Developer selects changes in the origin. 2  Source control tool applies some changes automatically to the target. 3  Developer reviews the results and resolves any conflicts.  Commit.
This doesn't mean that you should wait to branch until one or more files have conflicting changes. What it means is you should wait to branch until a logical change (feature, function, bug-fix) that is needed only for the new task, and not yet desired in the original codeline, is about to take place.