I like the ability to drill down into the details of why a change was made, the narrative of a PR and the back and forth flow can be hugely useful. The git DAG can be a very powerful way to encode both the high level narrative and the low level details.
The `--first-parent` option to git log and git annotate lets you stick to that high level narrative of just PRs/features that changed. (More tools should offer that as an option, it's probably my biggest request for GitHub's commit view, personally.)
It's a DAG for a reason, and it's powerful to take advantage of that, spending a lot of work (and potentially building a lot of footguns) forcing it to be a straight line seems counter-productive to me.
The `--first-parent` option to git log and git annotate lets you stick to that high level narrative of just PRs/features that changed. (More tools should offer that as an option, it's probably my biggest request for GitHub's commit view, personally.)
It's a DAG for a reason, and it's powerful to take advantage of that, spending a lot of work (and potentially building a lot of footguns) forcing it to be a straight line seems counter-productive to me.