Gitflow

According to a 2025 Atlassian survey, 38% of engineering teams report merge conflicts as their top blocker. Teams spend more time resolving conflicts than coding, especially when feature branches linger without synchronization or in complex monorepo setups.

Balancing multiple parallel releases with hotfixes is tricky. Pushing hotfixes directly into master without rebasing related branches risks overwriting critical changes and complicates integration across active development branches.