[dsmithatx]

As a git novice I wonder, doesn't a proper workflow do the same thing? When I submit a feature branch it might have a lot of ugly commits. However, once I merge it to an integration branch there is one nice commit explaining what I did.

When coworkers create Pull requests I don't go through all of their commits and changes along the way. I just look at the diff so, I don't see the need for them to squash it first.

[hnrodey]

Once merged, the history of your feature branch becomes part of the history of the integration branch.

Sounds like you're using GitHub (Enterprise) or something similar where the pull request view shows you all of the changes in a "squashed" fashion.

[dsmithatx]

Yes Bitbucket so, maybe that explains it.