GitFlow is the most popular Git branching model. After using it (and, more importantly, after seeing how it is used) for over a year now, I can say with confidence: I hate it. In the article, I try to explain why, and offer a better alternative.
In this post I present a Git branching strategy for developing and releasing software as I’ve used it in many of my projects, and which has turned out to be very successful.
The first part of the visual git tutorial explains how to locally track project files with the git version control system. It shows how to add and commit changes, how to browse the history, revert changes and how to work with tags and branches.