ok, so a “merge request” can be viewed as “merge of branch1 into master will happen at a time I cannot control”.

Now, branch1 is checked out, if I do git switch -c branch2, it will start a new branch2 based on the last commit from branch1, right? I feel it’s safer, since I don’t know when branch1 will merge, server-side.

This is the result with x265. To me this is better, more details.