Git Workflow Strategy

Git Workflow Strategy

Table of Contents

• Overview
• When to Use
• Quick Start
• Reference Guides
• Best Practices

Overview

Establish efficient Git workflows that support team collaboration, code quality, and deployment readiness through structured branching strategies and merge patterns.

When to Use

• Team collaboration setup
• Release management
• Feature development coordination
• Hotfix procedures
• Code review processes
• CI/CD integration planning

Quick Start

Minimal working example:

# Initialize GitFlowgit flow init -d
# Start a featuregit flow feature start new-feature# Work on featuregit add .git commit -m "feat: implement new feature"git flow feature finish new-feature
# Start a releasegit flow release start 1.0.0# Update version numbers, changeloggit add .git commit -m "chore: bump version to 1.0.0"git flow release finish 1.0.0
# Create hotfixgit flow hotfix start 1.0.1# Fix critical buggit add .git commit -m "fix: critical bug in production"git flow hotfix finish 1.0.1

Reference Guides

Detailed implementations in the references/ directory:

Best Practices

✅ DO

• Choose workflow matching team size and release cycle
• Keep feature branches short-lived (< 3 days)
• Use descriptive branch names with type prefix
• Require code review before merging to main
• Enforce protection rules on main/release branches
• Rebase frequently to minimize conflicts
• Write atomic, logical commits
• Keep commit messages clear and consistent

❌ DON'T

• Commit directly to main branch
• Create long-lived feature branches
• Use vague branch names (dev, test, temp)
• Merge without code review
• Mix multiple features in one branch
• Force push to shared branches
• Ignore failing CI checks
• Merge with merge commits in TBD