We started with gitflow, but our team ended up going with a Release based branching system as the constant integration of various features ended up giving less

We started with gitflow, but our team ended up going with a Release based branching system as the constant integration of various features ended up giving less control on what to deploy and when. Most common scenario... Devs create feature branches from master Features will be targeted to a release at some point, Release branch gets taken from master Devs PR feature branches to the release branch Release branch merges back to master on deployment.