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Ah, so what they really learned is that Gitflow is garbage. Yeah, long lived working branches are an enormous pain in the ass. I’m not convinced they are ever worth the hassle. Certainly for small teams they are not.

I am highly doubtful of the “commit first, test and code review later” model, though. Maybe this works for a very small, tight team who are all very highly skilled and care a ton about engineering quality. But this model can fall apart quickly. Bad code blocks the whole team and everyone pays the cost. You eventually end up with someone babysitting the build and test process to keep it moving and then some bright mind asks why you don’t put this stuff before checkin.