Git Flow

Feature, release, and hotfix branching model

Git Flow is a branching model that defines strict rules for how branches are created, merged, and named.

Git Flow uses five branch types: main, develop, feature, release, and hotfix.

main

develop

feature

release

hotfix

v1.0

main

dev

develop

Terminal

# Git Flow branch types:
#
# main     - production-ready code
# develop  - integration branch
# feature/ - new features
# release/ - release preparation
# hotfix/  - urgent production fixes

$ git flow init

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