That’s a great strategy that works in some scenarios. Preventing weekend breaks would depend on a daily deploy schedule? I do normally revert first and ask questions later when breaking changes appear, that’s similar to what you’re saying, I think...

> Letting devs commit to master directly? Horrible idea.

I’ve never been on a team that disallows commits to master. I can see the thinking, and maybe I should be doing that, but for whatever reason, the places I’ve been are less formal than that and they might be concerned about slowing down turnaround times during the day when people need to share things more quickly.

FWIW, I am including git and also VCSs other than git. It’s harder to wall off the master branch in Perforce as a policy decision. And maybe I just haven’t been on a large enough team to warrant having someone with full time merge duties...