I do anything from 10 minutes to months depending on the scope. Yes it’s painful to have longer lived branches but when you make a months long branch it’s becau

I do anything from 10 minutes to months depending on the scope. Yes it’s painful to have longer lived branches but when you make a months long branch it’s because the pain of doing it any other way would be greater. Most often the longer lived branches are high cost/risk/reward experiments that may or may not turn out successful. E.g swapping out some component that can’t be done side by side easily (as an example from the real world would be moving from .NET framework to .NET core in a several hundred man-year code base). Most “short” branches I do is 24-48h so typically a half day to a full day of coding then about the same amount of time waiting for reviews and validations.