Creating and shipping hotfixes

Hotfixes differ from regular changes in that they’re based on a different perennial branch—typically something like production or staging—and get merged back into that branch.

For example, to create a hotfix from the production branch:

git checkout production
git append my-hotfix

Now, when you run git town sync, it’ll sync your my-hotfix branch with production instead of the main branch. When you’re ready to submit the fix, git town propose will create a pull request from your hotfix branch back into production.