[whoknowsidont]

> but I think git-flow was popular largely because of the catchy name and catchy diagram.

It was because Git showed up in the era of SVN / CVS where those branching models were created because of the uh... let's just call it technical mishaps of those source control systems.

Git did not have the hang ups of SVN / CVS / etc but people stuck with what was familiar.

[zamalek]

Yup, there would have been much less Git buy-in if it weren't for git flow; people grow incredibly attached to their beloved taxonomies.

[throwaway150]

> Yup, there would have been much less Git buy-in if it weren't for git flow

I don't buy this. I've never used git-flow in life. No team I've worked for has ever used git-flow. Yet all of us have been using Git for ages. Git has been hugely successfully independently and different teams follow different Git workflows. Its success has got very little to do with git-flow.