Some people use long-lived branches in essentially the same way as short-lived branches function in TBD. Multiple sibling comments talk about merging in commits

Some people use long-lived branches in essentially the same way as short-lived branches function in TBD. Multiple sibling comments talk about merging in commits from main into their long-lived dev or QA branch multiple times a day, but this seems not really that different from just briefly branching from main when you need to do some work.