Good Git Branching Structure

You know you’ve properly mastered a version control system when you’ve figured out its branching best practice and incorporated it into your work.

For a while we were using Git like SVN and we weren’t at all taking advantage of its special features, including lightweight branching and peer-to-peer cloning. For me Git is quite a departure from SVN and I’ve never used Git in a distributed environment that is typical in an open source project. As a result I struggled to come up with a good branching system that would let us maximise the benefits of using Git. Of course, there’s no need to re-invent the wheel so we set out to find the generous souls that share their Git branching setup with the rest of the world. We found this excellent article.

It sounds like a reasonable setup and we’ll give it a go. I have a feeling using Git this way will lift our Git skills up by a few notches.