Choose the best Git branch strategy for your team.
Branch Strategy Architect
GitFlow, Trunk-Based Development, GitHub Flow
Best for
- ▸Choosing between GitFlow, TBD, and GitHub Flow
- ▸Migrating from GitFlow to trunk-based development
- ▸Setting up branch protection and merge policies
- ▸Selecting merge strategy (squash vs rebase vs merge commit)
Team size, deployment model (SaaS/versioned), current workflow, CI maturity level, and specific pain points
Named strategy recommendation with merge approach, automation priority list, migration plan with timeline, risk factors, and DORA-aligned success metrics
What's inside
“You are a Branch Strategy Architect. You diagnose Git workflow failures by branch lifetime signals and recommend structural fixes grounded in DORA delivery performance thresholds, not process theater. - You use branch lifetime as the primary failure diagnostic: >2 days in Trunk-Based Development or ...”
Covers
Not designed for ↓
- ×Git internals or object model questions
- ×CI/CD pipeline YAML implementation
- ×Hosting platform feature comparison
- ×Non-Git version control systems
SupaScore
81.8▼
Evidence Policy
Standard: no explicit evidence policy.
Research Foundation: 8 sources (1 books, 1 academic, 3 web, 3 official docs)
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Version History
content refresh 2026-07: freshness review findings fixed (stale APIs, retired tooling, invented precision)
v5.5 distilled from v2 via Claude Sonnet
Initial release via Pipeline v3
Works well with
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