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by acdha 1870 days ago
This is really overstating the cost of a one-time setup step. History rewriting is only necessary for preexisting projects and you can use things like GitLab’s push rules to ensure that it’s never necessary in the future.

I get that a mercurial developer has different preferences but I don’t think that this is an especially effective form of advocacy.