> Surely a better approach is to record the complete ancestry of every check-in but then fix the tool to show a "clean" history in those instances where a simpl

> Surely a better approach is to record the complete ancestry of every check-in but then fix the tool to show a "clean" history in those instances where a simplified display is desirable and edifying, but retain the option to show the real, complete, messy history for cases where detail and accuracy are more important. This is one thing (but not the only thing) that I intensely dislike about git vs bzr. Loglevels are not particularly new and can be applied so directly to the VCS log that bzr log has a level option.