alt Hacker NewsOne downside of squash merging is that when you need to split your work across branches, so that they're different PRs, but one depends on the other, then you have to do a rebase after every single one which had dependencies is merged.
One downside of squash merging is that when you need to split your work across branches, so that they're different PRs, but one depends on the other, then you have to do a rebase after every single one which had dependencies is merged.
When that happens I essentially pick one of the branches as the trunk for that feature and squash merge into that, test it, then merge a clean history into main.