On: A successful Git branching model (2010)

[imron]

Because it creates a large amount of needless busywork.

It's much easier to develop on master and/or on feature branches that can be cleanly merged in to master, and then tag master (or create branches) once a release is hit.

See for example the simple git workflow:

https://www.atlassian.com/blog/git/simple-git-workflow-simpl...