Git Workflow

Purpose

Establish and maintain effective Git workflows — branching strategy, commit conventions, merge patterns, and history management — that enable team collaboration, continuous integration, and reliable releases.

Agent Protocol

Trigger

Exact user phrases: "git workflow", "branching strategy", "git flow", "trunk-based", "commit convention", "merge strategy", "git hooks", "git history", "rebase vs merge", "git best practices", "commit message format".

Input Context

• Team size (solo, small team <10, medium 10-50, large 50+)
• Release cadence (continuous, weekly, monthly, scheduled)
• Deployment model (feature flags, release branches, environment-based)
• CI/CD setup (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, CircleCI)
• Current pain points (merge conflicts, messy history, broken main, long-lived branches)
• Platform (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps)