We don't use any branching. Git is complicated enough to explain to non-software engineers without branching. We treat all commit versions equally for CI/CD. As

We don't use any branching. Git is complicated enough to explain to non-software engineers without branching. We treat all commit versions equally for CI/CD. As most people are not software engineers, this seems a reasonable course of action if a project encompasses non software elements. We have non CI/CD testing anyway (nontrivial hardware projects require much more external process). For releases we assign versions without tags, instead using replication of a subdirectory tree under a version number. This ensures all versions are available locally to all users without adding any access complexity. This is basically optimizing for simplicity for the users.