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What is proper etiquette and recommended GitHub workflow for simultaneously contributing to and diverging from upstream repo?

I’m new to GitHub and VCS in general. I’ve been programming in various languages for years, but I’ve always worked solo on custom projects (no public releases). I recently started using a jQuery UI widget I downloaded from GitHub in a project I am working on. The repo is no longer maintained by the original author. Another fork has incorporated some of the original pull requests. This is the one I forked from.

Is a merging strategy like Git Flow really an anti-pattern?

My company is using Git, and is using a peculiar branching scheme – work is done in master, and branches are reserved for releases. This works fine, so long as all of the work done in an iteration makes it into the branch, but if a critical production issue comes up, we have to ensure that the work somehow makes it into both branches.

Workflow for building a RESTful API

I am building a RESTful API, and so far, to make sure that my resources work as I need them to, I am using a REST client called Postman. This makes it easy for me to store routes and quickly make requests to them for testing. My current collection of routes in Postman looks like this: