For anyone who wants to know more about branching and workflow processes, I'd recommend checking out the book Software Configuration Management Strategies and Rational ClearCase by Brian White.
Yes, I know it's a book on a commercial vcs and doesn't directly have anything to do with Git. But ClearCase with UCM has an equally powerful branching capability and in some ways is easier to use and manage (from a developer perspective). And there's probably at least 10 years of development and actual large-scale use behind it. It's good stuff, or at least the theory and workflows (just tune out the CC implementation parts).
FYI, my background was as a consultant in enterprise version control dealing with a number of different products: PVCS, Dimensions, Harvest, Starteam and ClearCase. All centralized and all working in completely different ways. I'd spent over three years on ClearCase architecting, implementing and managing a large-scale deployment before picking up Git.
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For anyone who wants to know more about branching and workflow processes, I'd recommend checking out the book Software Configuration Management Strategies and Rational ClearCase by Brian White.
Yes, I know it's a book on a commercial vcs and doesn't directly have anything to do with Git. But ClearCase with UCM has an equally powerful branching capability and in some ways is easier to use and manage (from a developer perspective). And there's probably at least 10 years of development and actual large-scale use behind it. It's good stuff, or at least the theory and workflows (just tune out the CC implementation parts).
FYI, my background was as a consultant in enterprise version control dealing with a number of different products: PVCS, Dimensions, Harvest, Starteam and ClearCase. All centralized and all working in completely different ways. I'd spent over three years on ClearCase architecting, implementing and managing a large-scale deployment before picking up Git.