Git strategies for documentation

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Argues for a concrete repo layout: create a branch per release so each software version keeps its docs, keep a master branch for shared fixes, and cherry-pick improvements into version branches rather than editing version folders. Uses Git tooling (diagram from get Kraken) and allows per-version dev and feature branches, so teams can maintain multiple live docs in parallel. Reports this workflow is easy to manage and “incredibly successful” in practice.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:40Standard git-flow strategy
3. 2:17Documentation is not software
4. 3:51Maintaining documentation for multiple versions
5. 5:01Version branches

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