[aaron695]

To clarify...

This is to roll out a feature to a small amount of customers for inital live beta testing before rolling out to all customers?

If so i think this is good. It is documenting the real issue of complexity of comming back to old code and old problems (old being weeks), even if you don't merge it cause of merge hell. At least you have a document of what to do.

And you are culling dead/dangerous code.

[pkaeding]

Yes, this clarification is accurate. I was thinking of 'canary launch'-style releases, where you release the new thing to a small group, then a larger group, etc, until everyone is getting it, and you don't need the flag any more.