Hello, if I may add my two cents,
* Bruno Haible wrote on Fri, May 01, 2009 at 07:02:29PM CEST: > - The git history would become nonlinear and confusing, with releases > occurring on a particular branch only. a nonlinear history is not bad per se! On the contrary, a nonlinear history can, if used cautiously, show development history very clearly. I'm tempted to call the "confusing" part a legacy of the way CVS has formed the way we think about version control. I for one still suffer from it. Cheers, Ralf