This is my preferred branching model. Most forges seem to call it "semi-linear history". If you have a lot of people working on the repo you'll probably want a

This is my preferred branching model. Most forges seem to call it "semi-linear history". If you have a lot of people working on the repo you'll probably want a merge queue to handle landing PRs but that's pretty straight forward. It works really well with things like git bisect. It also means history is actually useful.