So... It seems like, from the list of grievances, all they really needed to do was get rid of pull requests and just allow people to merge. I never understood p

So... It seems like, from the list of grievances, all they really needed to do was get rid of pull requests and just allow people to merge. I never understood pull requests vs merges to be a required part of Gitflow. Atlassian seems to agree with me: https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/comparing-workflows#gitflow-workflow https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/comparing-workflows#... "After adding a few commits, Mary decides her feature is ready. If her team is using pull requests, this would be an appropriate time to open one asking to merge her feature into develop. Otherwise, she can merge it into her local develop and push it to the central repository..."