programming reddit: "Bazaar blows goats"

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Forest Bond writes:

 > I don't get it.  If people want their merges to look like plain old
 > commits, they just need to tell bzr that.

The problem is that the emacs thread is not about how people can get
their preferred views, it's about defaults for vc.el.

 > Why not merge "Fix a typo.", revert --forget-merges, and then
 > commit -m 'Fix a typo.'?  A trivial script could save some typing.

Embedding that trivial script in vc.el might be a good idea.  I'll
think about presenting it to the vc thread on emacs-devel.