Pat -
Happy to try to provide some thoughts on this but first, a few questions:
1) What are you goals/objectives of the flow you describe? For example, are you simply trying to identify a path for deployment, are you wanting to be able to properly version, track and maintain your skuid pages (aka. source code), etc.
2) What other items (beyond SFDC metadata) are you maintaining in version control (e.g. javascript, html, readmes, static resource bundles, etc.)
3) How many developers on the team?
4) How many simultaneous “feature branches” do you typically have?
5) Who is responsible for merging feature branches to master and are you using pull requests?
