I almost got a bingo by checking off things I’ve muttered to myself.
I would’ve… but mercurial isn’t better.
As an aside, stop merging into in-progress private branches… it makes the absolute worst conflicts.
I’ve had that kind of reaction - on rebases also - and most times it was in fact a code smell pointing to a case of spaghetti code.
If you get to the point that you fear upstream merges/rebases into your WIP, stop for a second and ask yourself if maybe that might be an issue with too much interpendencies inside the code itself. Code should be as close to an directed acrylic graph as possible. (doesn’t count, I was not speaking of git! :b )
What’s your workflow that merging into other people’s WIP is normal? I’m so confused