> In the long run the non-release repository states don't matter that much either That's not true. Many a times I needed to comb through old commits for debugg

> In the long run the non-release repository states don't matter that much either That's not true. Many a times I needed to comb through old commits for debugging purposes. Also, with multi-branch development, you often have many non-release branches that are relevant at a specific point in time.