I like this comment. Over the years I've always found that whenever I see others using git, everyone uses it in different way and even for different purposes. This has left me really confused about what is the standard practice of Git exactly.
This is because people have different needs, Git is trying to cover too many things, there are multiple ways to achieve goals and therefore there is no standard practice. There is no single, standard way to cook chicken breast and that is a way simpler thing.
The solution is to set team/department standards inside companies or use whatever you need as a single contributor. I saw attempts to standardize across a company that is quite decentralized and it failed every time.
> there are multiple ways to achieve goals and therefore there is no standard practice
This is ultimately where, and why, github succeeded. It's not that it was free for open source. It's that it ironed out lots of kinks in a common group flow.
Git is a cultural miracle, and maybe it wouldn't have got its early traction if it had been overly prescriptive or proscriptive, but more focus on those workflows earlier on would have changed history.
