DOC: Move Git branches description into main docs

Add a description of the branches to the main contributing guide. Remove the Maintenance/Introduction.md where branch descriptions were kept because it also had redundant, outdated information on contributing.
InsightSoftwareConsortium · Nov 17, 2023 · db4b1d2 · db4b1d2
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diff --git a/Documentation/Maintenance/Introduction.md b/Documentation/Maintenance/Introduction.md
diff --git a/Documentation/docs/contributing/index.md b/Documentation/docs/contributing/index.md
@@ -362,6 +362,26 @@ To connect your [ORCID](https://orcid.org/) profile to the [ITK Zenodo
 citation](https://zenodo.org/record/3592082), add your name and ORCID iD to
 the *ITK/.zenodo* file after contributing 10 or more commits.
 
+Branches
+--------
+
+At the time of this writing the `ITK` repository has the following
+branches:
+
+  * `master`: Development (default)
+  * `release`: Maintenance of latest release
+  * `release-3.20`: Maintenance of the ITKv3 series
+  * `release-4.13`: Maintenance of the ITKv4 series
+  * `5.4`: Maintenance of the ITKv5 series.
+    - The naming convention changed to support ReadTheDocs rendering of
+      versions on docs.itk.org
+    - Future releases, `6.0`, `6.1`, etc. should use this convention.
+  * `nightly-master`: Follows master, updated at 01:00 UTC for nightly dashboard build consistency.
+  * `hooks`: Local commit hooks (place in `.git/hooks`)
+  * `dashboard`: Dashboard script (setup a CDash client)
+
+Actual releases have tags named by the release version number.
+
 ```{toctree}
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