Product type and its release method	Team size	Collaboration maturity	Applicable mainstream branch mode
All	Small team	High	Trunk-Based Development (TBD)
Products that support continuous deployment and release, such as SaaS products	Middle	Moderate	GitHub-Flow and TBD
Products with a definite release window and a periodic version release cadence, such as iOS apps	Middle	Moderate	Git-Flow and GitLab-Flow with release branch
Products that are demanding for product quality and support continuous deployment and release, such as basic platform products	Middle	Moderate	GitLab-Flow
Products that are demanding for product quality and have a long maintenance cycle for released versions, such as 2B basic platform products	Large	Moderate	Git-Flow