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title: "A Practical GitFlow Setup That Works on GitHub"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/a-practical-gitflow-setup-that-works-on-github-40nmgdovs
source_url: https://dev.to/this-is-learning/a-practical-gitflow-setup-that-works-on-github-46lb
type: article
source: "This is Learning"
author: "Emanuele Bartolesi"
published: 2026-02-02T12:10:08.617Z
updated: 2026-02-03T09:00:16.493Z
tags: ["devops", "github", "cicd", "git", "github-actions"]
reading_time: 18
upvotes: 2
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# A Practical GitFlow Setup That Works on GitHub

**[This is Learning](https://daily.dev/sources/til)** · [@kasuken](https://daily.dev/kasuken) · 18 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

GitFlow is a structured branching model for versioned releases with staging phases. The author uses it even on solo projects to enforce discipline through protected branches, mandatory pull requests, and strict merge rules. The setup includes five branch types (main, develop, feature/*, release/*, hotfix/*), environment-specific deployments, automated CI/CD pipelines, and enforced traceability through naming conventions and PR templates. Key principles: main is always releasable, all changes go through PRs, hotfixes branch from main and merge back to both main and develop, and tags exist only on main. The model requires at least three environments (dev, staging, production) to be effective, otherwise it becomes overhead without value.

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