Not only does Fork support --first-parent, but it even lets you expand/collapse any merge commit just by clicking the node in the graph! Agreed it's the best way to make sense of a merge-heavy history.

I highly recommend Fork.

Git recently added a --update-refs option to rebase that makes dealing with this scenario a lot easier. This post does a good job explaining how to use it: https://andrewlock.net/working-with-stacked-branches-in-git-...

oh my... I was at the point of making a git plugin to do this. This pretty much was the bane of my existence.

:pray:

I just wish it was this easy to do with physical mail as well...

I'm still amazed that https://gail.com/ is still just a pleasant personal website that reminds me of the early days of the web...

The HTML is delightfully retro,

  <p align="left"><font size="+1" face="ARIAL,HELVETICA">
  Q: Interested in selling gail.com?<br>
  A: Sorry, no.</font></p>