If you watch a single branch and deactivate the "related" branches, you can avoid seeing all the "buggy commits": all merges in Fossil are what Git does when in

If you watch a single branch and deactivate the "related" branches, you can avoid seeing all the "buggy commits": all merges in Fossil are what Git does when indicating "--no-ff". No branches are ever deleted, so the individual commits remain in the branch; the merge commit is always a single one.