[rmunn]

Yes, a good Git log viewer that would auto-squash branches down to a summary, and allow "expanding" them, would be useful. But the way branching and merging creates confusing train-track graphs is IMHO one of the reasons why many teams end up using the squash-and-merge workflow. There's definitely room for improvement there...

[anonymars]

For sure. It just bugs me that we're stuck between two bad options.

Now let's also talk about renames...