I was going to downvote you, but then you made me think - everyone pushing to a shared branch is the most continuous form of continuous integration I suppose.

I was going to downvote you, but then you made me think - everyone pushing to a shared branch is the most continuous form of continuous integration I suppose. I worked this way for years before we moved into full branched code review. I would never go back however. That said, you should still have at least some review and automated testing before your code gets in everyone else's way.