master, develop, feature and hotfix branches.master branch will be the stable release branch. The develop branch is for developing stable code. All code is to be developed in a feature branch or hotfix for urgent fixes. master branch is where the stable release is kept. Only code that has gone via the develop can be merged here and goes through a release process. It is very important that code there has been tested and is stable as it is used in production.develop branch brings together all the feature branches ready to be tested to become the next stable release. Developers should use develop as the base when creating a branch. develop a pull request is to be raised to allow the feature to be reviewed.hotfix branch is identical to the feature branch but instead is used for urgent fixes that need to be applied to master.develop branch is ready for release it is split off into a release branch. release branch will not have any more features added to it. It is then tested and any bugs fixed it will be released into master and tagged as a version number. The release will also be merged back into the develop branch.