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Various projects use Git in different ways, but they all use some sort of "workflow". Some of these workflows can be found here https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/comparing-workflows/gitflow-workflow. NetBeans used to use CVS, and then moved to Mercurial. The current hg workflow is pretty similar to the "Git Workflow" listed in the linked document. The branches work basically like the following, except the main arrows are repositories versus branches:
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