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SharePoint Online Custom Master Page
You definately could use Visual Studio to create a custom Master Page so that you can utilize version control / source control. You should however consider your approach to branding carefully. In general custom Master Pages should be avoided...
Please read about the latest guidance in the articles below:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/solution-guidance/portal-branding
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/solution-guidance/branding-and-site-provisioning-solutions-for-sharepoint
Have you considered making use of Communication Sites in SharePoint Online? These type of sites are generally considerd to be the successor to traditional Publishing Sites
Agree with Juan Carlos' suggestions. Furthermore, for full and unlimited branding options you could even consider building and hosting a full custom website (in ASP.NET and Azure for example) and using SharePoint Online only as a backend service hosting the data.
Thank you paulpascha and jcgonzalezmartin for the answers.
Some of the ideas demonstrated by Bob German should be helpful, see https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bobgerman/2018/03/11/building-headers-and-footers-that-work-on-classic-and-modern-sites/
