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by AstralStorm 2616 days ago
And you lose information about when given code was done. (Commit date and parent) Which is crucial to know if any given piece is stale in a bigger project. Stale code may be rotten code.

Why is a linear history better again? If you cannot read history graphs, perhaps you should really not use a VCS where merging happens.