[rblatz]

There are advantages to trunk based development, not exactly only using master, but close enough that you could probably spin it to comply.

[chris_wot]

What would stop someone creating a local fork in git, then do a merge fast-forward to the trunk and then push their commits and not the fork?

[MBCook]

A friend’s company was still doing it (in SVN) as of late last year. Quite possibly still are. It’s “what they’ve always done”.