If you're having a person own a branch, implementing it in their fork would probably make more sense: https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/comparing-workflow

If you're having a person own a branch, implementing it in their fork would probably make more sense: https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/comparing-workflows https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/comparing-workflows We using the forking model for bigger projects with more developers, and the branching model for smaller projects. It works out very nicely.