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Comment by cfstras | Hacker News Reader

There exist scripts and workflows to perform auto-merges from all release branches back to master. This way, you only have to care about branching off releases, and hotfixes will automatically land on develop once released.

(Assuming master is your "next release", and develop is your main development branch)

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Like I said, I cannot merge because we cannot push from our computer to Github(It's locked).

The only way to get code into branch is by doing a PR, and click merge button on Github UI. But a PR cannot be merged twice.

And If I open two PRs two master/develop then I will see this kind of error on Github: "This branch is 1 commit behind. 1 commit ahead of develop"

the way to go here is probably creating an "administrator" account which is used by those merging scripts, and allow push access to protected branches for administrators.

So, on my team, juniors can create feature branches and easily deploy a feature branch to a ‘staging’ server.

If the feature is deemed good, an ‘admin’ will ‘finish’ the feature and it is merged into develop branch.

Then, when we are ready for a release, the ‘admin’ will create a release and both develop and master are updated.

Updating master triggers a webhook that deploys the release.

For a hotfix, the release step is skipped, but both develop and master are updated, again causing the webhook to trigger a deployment.

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