Why do people try to come up with these byzantine git workflows? > However, what was missing was wider visibility of changes being applied to the code. That i

Why do people try to come up with these byzantine git workflows? > However, what was missing was wider visibility of changes being applied to the code. That is what is said to have been missing. The solution was not to use tags or feature branches, gitk or other visualization tools that could easily show changes being applied to code from any point to any other point. It was to make up this "reverse pull request" Rube Goldberg scheme.