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vvillena | 9 months ago

The "squash everything" mantra turns git commit history into a series of snapshots devoid of any logical notion about how code evolves.

Squashed commits are strictly worse than plain, non-fast-forwarded merges from rebased branches.

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baq|9 months ago

Depends on your commits. If it’s untested noise I’d much rather they’re squashed so bisect doesn’t meander in trash.

vvillena|9 months ago

Bisecting with --first-parent takes care of this.