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One Repo for Every Environment

Meagan Longoria explains an important part of source control repositories:

I’ve seen a few people start Azure Data Factory (ADF) projects assuming that we would have one source control repo per environment, meaning that you would attach a Git repo to Dev, and another Git repo to Test and another to Prod.

Microsoft recommends against this, saying:

Read on for the citation as well as the practical reason why we don’t want multiple repos. This is true not only for Azure Data Factory but for every development project. You have one repository with branches. Certain branches represent checkpoints where code goes out to a specific environment via use of a release tool (e.g., Azure DevOps release pipelines, GitHub actions, etc.).