Hello Friends,

In this article, we'll try to understand the concept of branches used in Git and similar Source Control Management (SCM) systems, and their usage scenarios.

We'll examine the topics below.

Basic branch concepts

Branch integration models

Well-known branch flow strategies

Choosing the right model

First of all, I'd like to add the following. I'm not an advocate of any of the models we'll examine. However, I care about applying best practices in the work I do. I believe there's a serious amount of experience and knowledge behind best practices. But if any one of these models were the best practice, we'd only be talking about/using that one anyway. We'll use the concept of best practice often, very often in this article, but the practices we're talking about here will be the internal best practices of the flow we're discussing.

Most likely, everyone reading this article will have some knowledge of the subject. So I'd like to give a warning. The article builds up the story gradually.…