GitHub Flow →
Scott Chacon has a nice write-up on Github’s workflow with Git: GitHub Flow. In his post he describes how GitHub deploys to production several times a day and how that clashes with Vincent Driessen’s excellent git-flow.
One of the bigger issues for me is that it’s more complicated than I think most developers and development teams actually require. It’s complicated enough that a big helper script was developed to help enforce the flow. Though this is cool, the issue is that it cannot be enforced in a Git GUI, only on the command line, so the only people who have to learn the complex workflow really well, because they have to do all the steps manually, are the same people who aren’t comfortable with the system enough to use it from the command line. This can be a huge problem.
Having recently managed to introduce git at work, I have encountered this exact issue myself. I’m the only developer who is comfortable with the command line. My colleagues all use some sort of IDE plug-in to enable them to use git. Therefore I haven’t even bothered to introduce git-flow. Although I certainly wish I could. A Git GUI which enforces the git-flow branching model would make my quest a lot easier (I hope your listening git-tower ;) ).
Scott’s article is great and gives a lot of insight into the workflow of one of the companies I hold in high regard. Check it out!
