[globular-toast]

I highly doubt tortoise or any tool can "break" a repo. This might be a sign that you don't understand git either. Now I'm sure it can lead to people who don't know what they're doing doing the wrong thing, but if they're allowed to push somewhere and make it someone else's problem, that's not their fault. They've been forced to use git, so there should be someone else who actually understands git.

[_puk]

Ah, we're holding it wrong. Got it.

[wruza]

“Break” doesn’t mean repo integrity corruption. It means that you try to merge a branch, and it shits itself with hundreds of conflicts that shouldn’t appear and/or has changes that may partially revert the progress made by other merges.

if they're allowed to push somewhere and make it someone else's problem, that's not their fault

What? This made zeroest sense of the day. Like, I should walk to their desk and check if a feature branch is okay to push or what?

[globular-toast]

Usually people make pull requests.

[wruza]

Yep, with a branch they pushed into. I guess you're ignoring the same context as another commenter elsewhere, probably because your workflow is restricted only to modes that git "supports".