My problem with this suggestion is, that I tend to do history rewrites on the development branch, if I realize I've fucked something up; but I don't do that on

My problem with this suggestion is, that I tend to do history rewrites on the development branch, if I realize I've fucked something up; but I don't do that on master. So on master, broken things get fixed with a new commit; on development - sometimes, sometimes they get fixed retroactively. That means that you can safely "git pull" the master branch, always, into the future, but if you try to pull the development branch, you may well fail.