I would guess unusual but want to hear from others before I nag my managers about it. 

In Databricks (I access in web browser) we have a compute cluster specifically for Git; you need to start it to push code or even to change branches. This is separate from your own clusters to run pipelines.

This one cluster is available to everyone; sometimes it might be already running but usually I need to start it for any git action. It has a timeout of 60 minutes so it's usually not running.

When I've asked managers they say "oh yeah, that's how they set it up. Don't know why" (they means Databricks COE).

I have the VS Code Databricks extension setup but haven't used it much. If I use VS Code can I sidestep this whole thing? 

Does anyone else do this? It doesn't make any sense.