How deeply does Think Like a CTO cover Git Flow?

Explains branch roles and merge paths, while deferring naming, lifetime, ticket integration, and release cadence to each environment.

Git Flow

As explained in Think Like a CTO

A Git branching model with separate master and develop branches and feature branches merged into develop before release.

Git Flow separates deployable code from ongoing development through master and develop branches. Feature branches start from develop, undergo review, and merge back into develop; releases merge develop into master. Direct commits to either main branch are avoided. section 9.3

Adapt the model to the team’s operating environment by deciding:

How feature branches connect to the ticket system. section 9.3
Branch naming, granularity, and expected lifetime. section 9.3
Release cadence and the tooling or reporting needed to support it. section 9.3

A release path

A team creates a feature branch from develop, reviews and tests it, merges it into develop, and later merges develop into master when preparing a deployable release. section 9.3

How Think Like a CTO covers it

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Infrastructure as Code, Patterns and Practices: With examples in Python and TerraformGit Flow is a branching workflow that organizes software development around dedicated branches for features, releases, and fixes.
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Lead Developer Career GuideA software development methodology that organizes work in Git through designated branches and branch-based integration practices.

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Related concepts

gituses · Git is a distributed version-control system that records changes to files and supports managing project history and collaboration across repositories.
branchuses · A branch is an independently evolving line of development in a version-control repository, typically represented by a reference to a sequence of changes or commits.
versioning patternkind of · A prescribed arrangement of branches, integrations, releases, and related version-control practices.
deployment pipelineuses · A sequence of automated or manual stages that builds, tests or validates, packages, and delivers software or models toward deployment.
GitHub flowalternative to · GitHub Flow is a lightweight Git branching workflow in which changes are developed on branches, reviewed, and merged into a main branch.
feature-based developmentkind of · Feature-based development is a software and infrastructure workflow that isolates changes on separate branches before review and merging.

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