[mrbobdobbs]

At our offices we use Pull Requests and Rebase as a combined work flow to get mostly linear history. Before issuing a PR we get the latest master, rebase our branch onto that so that all commits in our branch are approximately at the same time stamp and then issue a PR. This creates a nicely linear history for the most part.

The only evil is a willingness to force push the updated history over our branches before the PR goes up. But no one shares branches usually. Or the collaborators on a branch are few and they agree when to rewrite history.