[Feoh]

I said this in a reply, but lest it get lost in the shuffle, here goes. I have a tremendous amount of respect for mjd. His seminal articles on Perl, particularly "Suffering with Buffering" and "Coping with Scoping" saved my bacon more than once. However, I'm a release engineer, and this is an awful, awful Git work flow. As others have noted, Git was designed so that you can make wacky wild experimental changes off to the side in branches, and only when you're happy, merge them back to your working branch and eventually into master. This approach needlessly complicates things and seems incredibly error prone, especially the bit about having to do house cleaning on the morass of broken commits.