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I've had engineers tap me on the shoulder with a proud look on their face while pointing at some crazy mess of branches they've just spent hours futzing with to
by dwhitney 7y ago
I've had engineers tap me on the shoulder with a proud look on their face while pointing at some crazy mess of branches they've just spent hours futzing with to finally get "right". It would have taken them a fraction of the time to just fix whatever issue they were having by following the advice above. People really take git histories WAY too seriously.
- dspillett 7y agoI can see the point of being pathologically protective of your own source history. But the project you are sending a PR to only really need to see the final effect of the changes. Of course for your own local history the same technique can work, you just keep the old branch as well as the newly cleaned one. Though that might be unnecessary clutter to many.