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by keybored 617 days ago
And I mean the “squashed” history. Because that’s what this subthread is about: the claim that it is available in GitHub so therefore it is fine.

I want the meaningful commits to be in the Git history. Because that’s a better place than the forge.

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When creating a squashed merge from the PR, it presents an interface for the commit message. You can put the information you want there.

It’s not a requirement. I wrote in another thread[0] why I like this methodology, but to each project its own.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41839282

I know that you can write information in the commit message.

That is not sufficient. Which I explained here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41839438