[fragmede]

I'm not familiar with the gui git tools, preferring instead to work on the command line, but does whatever tool the author used to generate the graphs used on the web page support command line flags?

Specifically, git log --first-parent (--oneline --decorate) would look much better with the documented strategy. Instead of seeing all the commits in the branch, all that's shown is the merge commit. If you used the article's branch names, all you'd see is:

* Merge branch 'feature/SPA-138' into develop

* Merge branch 'feature/SPA-156' into develop

* Merge branch 'feature/SPA-136' into develop

If you actually used descriptive branch names, that would actually seem to be quite useful - see immediately see the features being added without seeing all the gritty details!