How is git flow organized — branches, environments, deployment?

Git Flow is a popular branching model that helps organize development and deployment.

Main branches:

• master — contains stable code ready for production.
• develop — integration branch for development, from which new releases are made.

Supporting branches:

• feature/ — for developing new features, branched from develop and merged back into develop.
• release/ — for preparing a release, branched from develop, merged into master and develop after testing.
• hotfix/ — for urgent fixes in production, branched from master and merged into master and develop.

Environments usually correspond to branches:

• develop — staging or testing environment;
• master — production.

Deployment occurs from the master branch after passing all tests and release verification. Hotfix branches allow quick bug fixes in production without waiting for the next release.

Example commands:

# Create a feature branch
git checkout develop
git checkout -b feature/new-feature

# After completing work
git checkout develop
git merge feature/new-feature

# Create a release
git checkout develop
git checkout -b release/1.0.0

# After testing
git checkout master
git merge release/1.0.0
git checkout develop
git merge release/1.0.0

# Delete the release branch
git branch -d release/1.0.0