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