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Re:Git: Please Stop Squash Merging by lucasoshiro on Monday July 01, 2024 @10:27AM (#40846144)
> the comments to the commits were several hundred MiB

I did't even thought about it. In fact, those are hundreds of lines that no one would read, as the commits are lost and you can't do anything with them...

Re:Git: Please Stop Squash Merging by strawhatguy on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @08:03PM (#40861623)
Totally, but that's what was there. For background, I think the comment created would be a combination of all the comments in all the commits in that branch. Horrid.

I hadn't even heard of squash commits before this, and we looked into it because the Stash site kept timing out. All the people that had built it was just shrug, Stash sucks, always been this way, like all seniors-that-are-actually-juniors-because-big-corp-can't-keep-good-folks-to-teach-them do. I mean maybe the tool sucks, but at least give it a fair chance first.