The Quest Begins (The "Why") I still remember the first time I tried to ship a feature on a Friday night, only to watch my main branch turn into a tangled mess of half‑finished experiments, stray fixup! commits, and a rebase that felt like trying to untangle headphone wires in the dark. I spent three hours hunting down why a test was failing, only to discover that a teammate had squashed a commit I’d based my work on, and my branch was now built on a commit that no longer existed. The fr...