git with development, staging and production branches

Question

This article sounds interesting, but I\'m pretty sure the diagrams are wrong. http://guides.beanstalkapp.com/version-control/branching-best-practices.html

Shouldn\'t

Answer 1

The thought process here is that you spend most of your time in development. When in development, you create a feature branch (off of development), complete the feature, and then merge back into development. This can then be added to the final production version by merging into production.

See A Successful Git Branching Model for more detail on this approach.