Re:Idiot Proof Git
by Shacklz on Thursday November 10, 2022 @03:09AM
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> You can, 99.9% of the time, emulate linear history with first parent history
Fully agreed, but that requires first of all to understand how this works and second requires you to run commands locally. If you're unfortunate enough to have to use e.g. bitbucket-server at work like I do, you'll always see the full graph, there which is A LOT easier to grok if it's linear. And since that's what's most devs look at (instead of git-log using some extra options) and also where CI-state happens to be reported (green/red build), that's worth a ton :)
Fully agreed, but that requires first of all to understand how this works and second requires you to run commands locally. If you're unfortunate enough to have to use e.g. bitbucket-server at work like I do, you'll always see the full graph, there which is A LOT easier to grok if it's linear. And since that's what's most devs look at (instead of git-log using some extra options) and also where CI-state happens to be reported (green/red build), that's worth a ton :)