> Genuinely asking: What's the value prop of having the merge-commit in the history for you? Have you ever capitalized on it? And if so, could you share the com

> Genuinely asking: What's the value prop of having the merge-commit in the history for you? Have you ever capitalized on it? And if so, could you share the command-line-fu that's helped you take advantage of having such a commit in your repo history? I recently reverted one of those, and it was much easier because it was a single commit, I just had to pick the right parent to revert to. I'm not bothered about dev branches commit messages, I consider them a backup of my local workspace anyway. But my dev branches are pretty short-lived, maybe that's significant.