Git and branching workflows
Introduction When you are working in a software project, one of the most important aspects is your branching strategy. If you are using GIT (and if don't, probably you should consider it), there are several strategies, such as Gitflow, Github flow and Gitlab flow, etc. In this article, I will try to introduce them and analyse pros and cons for each one. Spoiler alert, there are advantages and disadvantages for all of them, so taking that into account, you should consider which one fits better for your project and team. Environments and software life-cycle First of all, in order to understand why we need a particular branching strategy, we need to have clear which is the relationships between versioning, environments and software life-cycle. Normally, in software development, we can find three environments, where we will be deploying our versions for different purposes. These can be more than three, but lets focus on the basic pipeline. I will call those environments