Document Best Practices for application versioning

[tacman]

Can you document how you use this tool for managing versions in an application using github? It'd make a great medium article, too.

I have a 'main' branch, which is simply the latest code. Each developer has their own branch, or (someday), we'll create branches that fix a particular issue.

I think I want to have a 1.x branch for the current release, and a 2.x branch for the beta release. We only deploy to one place, a dokku server, but I'd like to be able to deploy the latest release (e.g 1.1.4) and a beta release (2.1.1-beta), or something like that.

For example, I just used this bundle to push a 1.0.1 tag to https://github.com/survos/kidpanalley and now I'm trying to deploy a release to dokku. Should I have a 1.x branch? I'm confused about the relationship between tags and branches, how do I associate the latest version with a particular branch?

Thanks for considering this. I imagine you're an expert in versioning, many of us are just plodding along copying and pasting from examples.