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Re:Commits are snapshots not diffs (2020) by secondcoming on Thursday April 08, 2021 @02:51PM (#26742336)
We've never had an issue with git merge'ing all over. I've never looked at our git graph because I've never had to.

Maybe rebase is a tool to help poor software development practices? (and your colleagues letting branches go stale is one of those)

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Re:Commits are snapshots not diffs (2020) by Sn0wCoder on Thursday April 08, 2021 @03:12PM (#26742551)
I agree if you merge early and often everything goes smooth and if you have a stale branch your doing something else wrong. At least for the work I do, web dev. Some of our pipeline folks are working under a different paradigm and they run into these problems often but also understand how to rebase and cherry pick. As always just depends,
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Re:Commits are snapshots not diffs (2020) by kazinator on Thursday April 08, 2021 @03:21PM (#26742643)
> help poor software development practices

Says someone who's "never looked at our git graph".

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Re:Commits are snapshots not diffs (2020) by secondcoming on Thursday April 08, 2021 @04:30PM (#26743383)
Entertain me then, why do you need to look at it?
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