You don't need GitFlow

GitFlow was designed for teams shipping scheduled releases. If you're deploying continuously, it's overkill.

Trunk-based development

Everyone works off main. Short-lived feature branches (1-2 days max), merged via PR.

Rules:

1. Branches live for less than 2 days
2. Every merge to main deploys to staging automatically
3. Main is always deployable

Commit messages that help future you

feat: add tag filtering to blogs list
fix: prevent duplicate likes from same user
refactor: extract tag sync logic to service layer

Conventional commits + a good CI pipeline = a changelog you didn't have to write manually.

The only branching rule that matters

Never commit directly to main. Everything else is negotiable.