BitBucket Offers Git Support

[Alex Rønne Petersen]

On 02-11-2011 17:03, Kagamin wrote:
>>> The merge itself can be a commit (if you use git merge instead of git
>>> pull), but there is no reason to eliminate the *entire* history when
>>> pulling in a branch.
>>
>> Isn't the merge commit connected with the branch it was merged from? So if you want history of the branch, it's still there, it's just not main's history.
>
> An example from Fossil:
> 20 recent commits: http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/timeline
> 20 recent commits in trunk: http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/timeline?r=trunk

That only makes sense if you keep the branches around after they're 
'dead', which is considered a bad practice, as it will eventually grow 
confusing.

- Alex