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# GitLab Flow
- A simplified branching strategy
- All features and fixes first go to master
- Allows for 'production' or 'stable' branches
- Bug fixes/hot fix patches are cherry-picked from master
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# Feature branches
- Create a feature/bugfix branch to do all work
- Use merge requests to merge to master
![inline](gitlab_flow/feature_branches.png)
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# Production branch
- One, long-running production release branch
as opposed to individual stable branches
- Consider creating a tag for each version that gets deployed
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# Production branch
![inline](gitlab_flow/production_branch.png)
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# Release branch
- Useful if you release software to customers
- When preparing a new release, create stable branch
from master
- Consider creating a tag for each version
- Cherry-pick critical bug fixes to stable branch for patch release
- Never commit bug fixes directly to stable branch
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# Release branch
![inline](gitlab_flow/release_branches.png)
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# More details
Blog post on 'GitLab Flow' at
[http://doc.gitlab.com/ee/workflow/gitlab_flow.html](http://doc.gitlab.com/ee/workflow/gitlab_flow.html)