4.1. GIT best practices
The Bitbucket web site as well as chat bots and the web in general have lots of advice on best practices for code maintenance, so here we just add advice specific to DISPATCH, and a few basic GIT command-line hints.
Note that many of the operations shown with command line syntax in the examples below may also be carried out with GUI applications. Specifically, you may find the Git Graph extension to VScode useful.