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Squash vs Merge vs Rebase Explainer
Answer what actually matters to your team, get a recommended merge strategy and the real tradeoffs between all three.
What matters to you?
Recommended: Squash and merge
Collapses the whole PR into one commit on main. Cleanest history, one revert undoes the whole feature, but individual commit context inside the PR is gone from main.
- Linear history rules out plain merge commits.
- A branch full of "wip" / "fix typo" commits is exactly what squash exists to clean up before it hits main.
| Strategy | Linear history | Bisect-friendly | Preserves commits | Easy full revert |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Squash and merge | ||||
| Create a merge commit | ||||
| Rebase and merge |
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