In reality the history was never linear to begin with.
03 Jul 2015 • news.ycombinator.comI get that there is some inconvenience around rebasing coordination and tooling integration (although GitHub PRs handle it pretty well), but the idea that the unadulterated original history has significant value is a straw man. If the branch as written was incompatible at the point it got merged, there is no value in retaining the history of that branch in an incompatible state because you won’t be able to use it anyway. In extreme cases you might decide the entire branch is useless and just pitch it away entirely, and certainly no one is arguing to save history that doesn’t make it onto master right?
Good read if you are anti-rebase. Me, I love a good solid rebasing.