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Interesting. I have only ever heard "gitflow" used to refer to the specific model described in https://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/ . The author also wrote a tool, "git-flow", to assist with this model https://github.com/nvie/gitflow .

I have heard the terms "git branching model" or "git workflow" used for the concept that you call "gitflow".

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nvie/gitflow is a long dead project. There's an active fork at https://github.com/petervanderdoes/gitflow-avh

Thanks for the link, at the very least Jeff Kreeftmeijer in 2010 already used the name git-flow for that specific model. I somehow missed all of that.

Plus nvie.com updated its 10-year old post with a notice yesterday and also uses the name git-flow there.

I guess I'd better use the term git workflow in the future.

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