[lanza]

I think the fundamental misunderstanding people with your point of view have regarding linear commit histories is that it's not just about different VCS usage, the entire development process is changed.

When you are using linear histories and rebasing you don't do monolithic feature branches. You land smaller chunks and gate their functionality via some configuration variable. `if (useNewPath) { newPath(); } else { oldPath(); }` and all your new incremental features land in `newPath`. All tests pass on both code paths and nothing breaks. When the feature is fully done then you change the default configuration to move to the `newPath`.

> How are you going to deal with non-trivial feature branches that need to be integrated into master?

That's the point -- this isn't a thing in rebase workflows. That's a feature. You don't have to deal with megapatches for massive features. It's incrementally verified along the way and bisect works flawlessly.