Because it creates a large amount of needless busywork. It's much easier to develop on master and/or on feature branches that can be cleanly merged in to maste

Because it creates a large amount of needless busywork. It's much easier to develop on master and/or on feature branches that can be cleanly merged in to master, and then tag master (or create branches) once a release is hit. See for example the simple git workflow: https://www.atlassian.com/blog/git/simple-git-workflow-simple https://www.atlassian.com/blog/git/simple-git-workflow-simpl...