I'm laughing because it seems every company has some variation of this kind of madness. They're like flavors. >Why didn't they with full access to the branch,

I'm laughing because it seems every company has some variation of this kind of madness. They're like flavors. >Why didn't they with full access to the branch, just submit the commit? Or open a PR against the branch (did you know you can do that?)? As for some of these why questions, I think the answer is that they want to enforce that you follow the process. I've seen people get cartoonishly bent out of shape over exactly this kind of stuff, "you're supposed to do x!". It's part of how devs are "automated".