[greyskull]

The team I started on a year and a half ago, first out of college, has the soft requirement that the master git branch for each package be flat. Feature branches get squashed (or rebased into few commits), before being rebased onto mainline. I'm sure there are teams out there that don't like this, since you lose the history from the branches, but this is so great for just being able to _look_ at a history.

I have an alias that's like "git log --oneline --pretty" and a couple other options that I can't remember that gives me the flat graph of history. Digesting that is so much more comfortable, and also makes it significantly easier to understand where I'm at when I'm branching about for feature work.