I think one major shortcoming of git-flow is that semantically commits belong to a specific branch, but it conflicts with git's branching model, which are just

I think one major shortcoming of git-flow is that semantically commits belong to a specific branch, but it conflicts with git's branching model, which are just moving labels. Git flow ironically probably works better on mercurial branches, where changesets (commits) belong to specific branches permanently. Also I think it's hard to implement complicated git branching strategies when most developers like to navigate the history by visualizing the graph of commits by GUI tools or just by git log. It doesn't help that git log doesn't implement a powerful query language over commits, but most developers are not aware of the simpler but powerful queries either that are available.