Managing source control for internal products is relatively straightforward. But when delivering client projects with fixed timelines, strict acceptance criteria, and multiple stakeholders, bad Git habits can quickly lead to merge hell, broken deployments, or lost features.
Over years of building custom web applications and SaaS platforms, we’ve refined a pragmatic hybrid Git workflow that combines the structure of Git Flow with the speed of Trunk-Based Development.
Here is the exact Git workflow and branching strategy we use to keep client codebases clean, stable, and production-ready at all times.
1. The Core Branch Architecture
We keep our long-lived branches down to three primary tiers:
