About Git-flow

Git-flow

Git-flow is a well-defined process for using git to develop software in a consistent way. Git-flow covers all of the most important steps of managing a project’s development and release process. Git-flow encompasses developing and merging features, applying bug fixes and hot fixes, and creating and tagging releases. Git-flow abstracts many of the low level features of git and takes a lot of the guesswork out of remembering git commands and arguments.

There are a number of tools that are designed to make development with Git-flow easier. The most useful of these is the free, Atlassian SourceTree software package. Using SourceTree to development software with Git-flow is described in my book Introduction to Git-flow: A Git Workflow and Development Model.