I use Git a lot, in my daily job as well as for this blog. When using it, I often rebase locally before pushing, to have a clean and readable history. A sample workflow For my blog, the branching model looks like the following: o---o---o---o master \ \---o---o feature/newposts master As expected, this branch is the production site. feature/newposts The branch is dedicated for new posts. There’s one post per commit.