I read Gitflow differently. Feature branches should be merged to develop as soon as possible. This lets others integrate the changes into their features, curren

I read Gitflow differently. Feature branches should be merged to develop as soon as possible. This lets others integrate the changes into their features, current and future, and build upon it instead of having a single multimerge from hell later. [0] Release branches are where you do integration testing of all the merged features. If you have fixes, you merge them into the release branch. Then, once it's OK'd for release, you merge those patches down to develop. Note that this is also exactly how hotfixes work, as they're just a different type of release. [0] And yes, you will find bugs in other people's code... I don't think anyone is claiming that source control processes can fix that. And if they are, I will call them a silly goose.