Azure DevOps Release Pipelines should have a flow that provides feedback on the state of the code to the individual developers checking in the code. This feedback should come in as quickly as possible and code check ins should be small and iterative. You should have your teams refrain from checking in larger amounts of code covering a large number of requirements; smaller check ins are easier to handle and adjust to. This will help reduce the merging process, however, teams should always do one pull for the latest code. Let's look at the sequence diagram of this process, as shown in the following diagram:
Release pipeline sequence ...
