On 1 February 2016 at 15:44, Jan Stolarek
I also wonder what is the preferred way of viewing history for most of the people. I either use `git log` or github, but rarely resort to gitk. Only the latter makes the non-linear commits explicitly visible. The former two just collapse everything into a linear history and is such a setting merge commits are a major clutter. So perhaps that's why I don't like them. Perhaps people who tend to use gitk are more keen on merge commits?
Just as a side-note: git log has a --no-merges option to show only non-merge commits. That might make your experience a little better when working on such code bases. Alternatively, you can pass --graph (best combined with something like --oneline) to view a gitk like graph that shows the merges. Erik