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Originally proposed by Vincent Driessen, Gitflow is a development workflow using git and several pre-defined branches. This can seen as a special case of the Feature Branch Workflow. The idea of this one is to have separate branches reserved for specific parts in development: master branch is al...

This type of workflow is fundamentally different than the other ones mentioned on this topic. Instead of having one centralized repo that all developers have access to, each developer has his/her own repo that is forked from the main repo. The advantage of this is that developers can post to their o...

With this fundamental workflow model, a master branch contains all active development. Contributors will need to be especially sure they pull the latest changes before continuing development, for this branch will be changing rapidly. Everyone has access to this repo and can commit changes right to t...

The core idea behind the Feature Branch Workflow is that all feature development should take place in a dedicated branch instead of the master branch. This encapsulation makes it easy for multiple developers to work on a particular feature without disturbing the main codebase. It also means the mast...

Popular within many open source projects but not only. Master branch of a specific location (Github, Gitlab, Bitbucket, local server) contains the latest shippable version. For each new feature/bug fix/architectural change each developer creates a branch. Changes happen on that branch and can be d...