Making changes to multiple branches?

[meowsus]

My team's workflow is as follows: develop and release patches from master until work for a minor or major is merged, then branch to a vX.X-stable branch. Fix bugs in the oldest branch in which they occur. When releasing from a stable branch, merge down the oldest branch you will release from into the next oldest, and repeat until you're back in master.

Because of this, checking out the most recent commit in the default branch will often not work for us, since the temp repo that is cloned will only ever contain the default branch.

I could be missing something, but I'm pretty sure that there is no current way to get around this limitation. I'm about to submit a PR for, what I believe may be, an unobtrusive solution to the issues we're facing using gitbot.