Do Git Branches Actually Nest? AI Agents and Stacked PRs
Daniel asks whether the branch-per-feature rule still makes sense when an AI agent's whole session lasts five minutes, and whether branches can be nested for multi-agent repositories. The answer starts with a correction: in Git, branches are just pointers to commits — there is no parent-child relationship anywhere in the object model. What people call nesting is either a topology (branch B created from the tip of branch A) or a naming convention (slashes in a branch name are purely cosmetic). From there, the conversation traces the real history — Atlassian's Feature Branch Workflow, Vincent…
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