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note, this post was sitting in drafts for a few years ago and suddenly has become top of mind again in my post about git branching problems, I neglected to inform/expand on the "real" problem. Namely, Delaying integration is bad (tm) The History Waaaay back in the olden days, when folks used tools like RCS , cvs , and svn ...branching was...well downright difficult. Or rather, reintegrating the branches and/or cherry picking single commits without making things super complicated was very difficult. In those days, many folks adopted "trunk based development"...which meant...everybody worked on the trunk, and if you had conflicting changed you had to deal with it...RIGHT NOW. Moreover it made things like long running divergent branches a wicked problem when trying to bring back into the mainline...so most people just "didn't do it". Then Linus Torvalds Changed Things Well, in fairness, distributed VCS tools had been around a while, but he sorta