The most salient points for me were actually made in the last paragraph. IMO would have improved the article to put this at the top rather than at the bottom.

The most salient points for me were actually made in the last paragraph. IMO would have improved the article to put this at the top rather than at the bottom. > The crucial point I’m making is to is ask questions of your team: What problems will this branching model help us solve? What problems will it create? What sorts of development will this model encourage? Do we want to encourage that behavior? Any branching model you choose is ultimately meant to make humans work together more easily to produce software, and so the branching model needs to take into account the needs of the particular humans using it, not something someone wrote on the internet and claimed was ‘successful’.