This is my favorite. It allows one to easily create "service" branches based on tags where you apply to that tag a select set of commits from the development br

This is my favorite. It allows one to easily create "service" branches based on tags where you apply to that tag a select set of commits from the development branch that you can then easily deploy to PROD without including the rest of the (perhaps not sufficiently tested) commits and without having a convoluted branching strategy.