Git Workflow & Branching Strategy

Every team eventually hits the same wall: merge conflicts pile up, releases become terrifying, nobody knows which branch to work from. This skill provides three battle-tested branching strategies (trunk-based, GitHub Flow, Git Flow) with clear decision criteria for when to use each. Plus the operational layer most guides skip: branch protection rules via GitHub CLI, PR review templates, conventional commit enforcement with commitlint + husky, automated changelog generation, semantic versioning, release tagging workflows with GitHub Actions, hotfix procedures, and monorepo branching patterns with Nx/Turborepo. Includes ready-to-paste configs, shell commands, and CI/CD workflows. Works with GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket.