If everyone is working in feature branches then you're still merging less often. Until you've merged your work into master then I'm not merging it into my featu

If everyone is working in feature branches then you're still merging less often. Until you've merged your work into master then I'm not merging it into my feature branch. That leads to bigger merges than if everyone is committing to master all the time. Pros or cons of each aside, advocates of feature branch based development should recognize that they are merging less often than they would if they were doing trunk based development.