[welearnednothng]

This is one of the things I miss about Perforce - every merge was effectively a squash merge, but the branch was still there, just not visible by default (if I remember correctly). It was the best of both worlds - you keep a complete audit trail, but it was out of the way and didn’t interfere with your day to day view of the commit log. Moreover, there was never any discussion on merge strategies as there was just the one way to do it.

On top of that, they had some amazing tools for aiding in audits when you needed them.

I’m not suggesting we all switch to Perforce! But I do miss that aspect of it.