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Jean-Michel πŸ•΅πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Fayard • Edited

JetBrains git integration is amazing, I have an article planned on this.

Squashing on GitHub works exactly like you say. If you look at the main branch, it's only one commit, but if you need the details, you click on the link to the PR and you can see what happened step by step.

I'm not entirely sure we need a new VCS to achieve most of this. A lot of it can be done through guidelines and a good UI (which could be either a GUI or a CLI) on top of git.

I agree, the issue is that there is a strong culture in the git community that goes against that, that discourage people to use git clients, that pushes "best practices" that reflect what they think is the one true way to use git, ...