Why Your Git Workflow Matters
Your Git workflow affects deployment frequency, code quality, and team velocity.
Trunk-Based Development
Everyone commits to main multiple times a day. Short-lived feature branches merged within hours.
Smallest merge conflicts
Fastest integration feedback
Requires feature flags for incomplete work
Best for continuous deployment
Feature Flags: The Key to Trunk-Based
if (featureFlags.isEnabled("new-checkout")) { return <NewCheckout />;}return <OldCheckout />;Choosing Your Workflow
SaaS / continuous deployment -> Trunk-based
Open source -> GitHub Flow
Mobile apps with versioned releases -> GitFlow
Enterprise with compliance -> GitFlow with extra gates
Best Practices
Keep PRs small (< 400 lines)
Require at least one approval
Use conventional commits
Set up branch protection rules
Delete branches after merging