> Merging all the related branches into master when doing a release ... --- doesn't sound like Gitflow. In Gitflow, the topic branches have been merged into th

> Merging all the related branches into master when doing a release ... --- doesn't sound like Gitflow. In Gitflow, the topic branches have been merged into the develop branch first, as they were finished. In contrast, merging into master is a merge from a single branch. You branch from develop into a release branch. Then you merge the release branch into master.