I’ve been working on a project with a branch configuration of Figma.

One pain is that branched components have to be merged so that they are usable throughout other branched designs… so I had to copy them “locally”.

main

• branch1 (e.g. component1)
• branch2 (e.g. component2)
• branch3 (a design)
• branch4 (another design)

so I had to copy component1 and component2 to branch3 and branch4.

And then, when I merged branch1 and branch2, an even one change in the component in branch½ as compared to their copies in branch3 or 4 meant crashing the instances in branch3 or 4…

Why is that so?

Even if I add something tiny, shouldn’t the structure try to reflect the previous structure… and maybe propose something like - be careful - we have this and that in a different way - choose what to do now… and then e.g. you choose how a particular setting of an instance is reflected from the newly merged component?

E.g. I have in branch1 an input and it has states like hover, etc.

then I copy it to branch3 and 4 so that I can use it in my designs. (BTW - why isn’t there like “linking” between branches? or maybe there is and I don’t know it?)

and then I make just a tiny change in component in branch1, merge it to main

distribute it to branch3 and 4… and the instances of the component get broken : /

Why is there no options, no alert - “be careful, this component was changed, please review the changes” - why isn’t there component-level comparison? Component feature-level comparison…