One of the things that I’m passionate about is the development process. So much of the battle is won or lost by the type of development process you have. Leaning on a couple smart guys, I’ve established a very clean workflow in git. If you haven’t read these posts, please do so before continuing. Both are excellent and will help clarify my question.

Subversion (SVN) has been a staple of my development process since I ran kicking and screaming out of the Visual SourceSafe (VSS) dungeon many years old. It has served me very well. I used the basic edit-commit-merge life-cycle and all was good. Here’s the strange thing.