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    9 months ago

    Doesn’t squashing on merge achieve exactly the same thing? (As long as pull requests are kept small, of course.)

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      19 months ago

      To a degree, if pull requests are small enough, then yes.

      Often, a changeset includes different aspects and concerns though, and individual commit messages allow you to document and reason them. Squashing makes you lose the concern separation.

      When reviewing, even relatively simple changes separated into their concerns helps me a lot.

      It’s a matter of preference and necessity, and the changeset and it’s environment at hand.