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Re:Is Git Irreplaceable? (2019) by imtringued on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @10:09AM (#21980591)
>In addition fossil never looses data, unlike git which can easily destroy branches that are not pushed, delete stuff while stashing or unstashing, delete stuff when rebasing and so on.

I have created a lot of feature branches that contain useless commits which I then later corrected with a simple git merge --squash. Preserving those commits sounds like a drag.

Re:Is Git Irreplaceable? (2019) by wyoung2 on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @11:37AM (#21981548)
You're making bisects, cherry-picks, and backouts harder by squashing history like that.

We cover this and more in the Fossil project document "Rebase Considered Harmful": https://fossil-scm.org/fossil/doc/trunk/www/rebaseharm.md