At [previous company], we initially required branches to be up to date with main. Since it was a relatively big mono repo, it slowed down productivity quite a

At [previous company], we initially required branches to be up to date with main. Since it was a relatively big mono repo, it slowed down productivity quite a bit. Eventually we tried dropping that requirement and instead relied on testing main before deploying to production. It sped us up again, and main never broke because of bad merges while I was there.