woocommerce/docs/contributing/woocommerce-git-flow.md

WooCommerce Git Flow

For core development, we use the following structure and flow.

Branches

• Trunk is the branch for all development and should always be the target of pull requests.
• Each major or minor release has a release branch e.g. release/3.0 or release/3.2. There are no release branches for patch releases.
• Fixes are applied to trunk, and then cherry picked into the release branch if needed.
• Tags get created from release branches when ready to deploy.

Branch naming

Prefixes determine the type of branch, and include:

• fix/
• feature/
• add/
• update/
• release/

When creating a fix branch, use the correct prefix and the issue number. Example:

fix/12345

Alternatively you can summarise the change:

fix/shipping-tax-rate-saving