[phodge]

I've never liked git flow due to:

A) the way it abuses the commit DAG: you never merge master directly back to develop, and so your tags don't become ancestors of the commits on develop until some timer later when an unrelated hotfix is branched from master. E.g., you can't rely on "git branch --contains v1.0.1" to tell you which branches do/don't contain the 1.0.1 hotfix because the hotfix branch was merged to develop, but not the merge commit that was tagged as 1.0.1.

B) its blatant disregard for one of the most basic software development principles: when you want to deploy a new version of your software, you test a specific a revision of your code and that's the revision that you deploy. With Git Flow, you go to great lengths to ensure your release branch is isolated from other work for testing, but then you merge to master and deploy the merge commit instead of the commit you just tested.