[busbus]

I understand the needs. But to me, I can’t see any real value to squashing other than cleaning local history before sharing the code. Also, and that’s important for me (maybe other people doesn’t care of it) I lose the ability to bisect more precisely. When I know that my guilty commit is a squashed one, I have to watch every modification to understand what went wrong, which takes time for me.

Also, everything you describe can be achieved with a merge commit. As a side effect, when you look at the history, you may be annoyed with small commits that may not interest you. But Git can help by displaying only merge commit (with --first-parent option).

[rezonant]

Ah bisect is a great use case here.

True that you can achieve it in a merge commit. And I think Github includes the PR URL in a merge commit as well iirc. I suppose my main argument is really just that the always-rebase strategy that was trendy for awhile has some downsides over squash/merge commit /shrug