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This actually makes it much harder to answer the question "What happened with the branch of X name 2 years ago?"


What is the value of that information? When I’ve looked at older commits, I either want to know about the resulting code or the context (e.g., motivations, discussions). A fixup commit, or some other intermediate commit isn’t useful.




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