> When arriving, I discovered branches were living from 5 days to somewhere 30 days. People had to rebase mainline frequently into their branches, causing lots

> When arriving, I discovered branches were living from 5 days to somewhere 30 days. People had to rebase mainline frequently into their branches, causing lots of rework and spending much non-valuable time on fixing what got broken. This alone doesn't tell me anything about their process. It happens with unbranched workflows as well (unless you use a VCS that prevents more than one person from checking out a file at one time). The fact is, some work takes a few days (or weeks) to get right, and in the meantime other people may have changed those files. This is why `svn update` and `p4 sync` exist.