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by plasticchris 75 days ago
The why is that most people when given the merge option don’t clean up their history so you end up with tons of garbage fix up commits.
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That is an issue of ignorance, not laziness. It’s not obvious at all to an average developer that only uses `add/commit/merge/fetch/push/pull/rebase/restore/reset` that they can manipulate their change history.
The cause stops mattering after a while, either you have to go on a full time campaign to educate people… or switch the setting to rebase and squash and be done with it.