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Discussion on: Rebase or merge

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Ryan Silva • Edited

I find it more straightforward and less error-prone to suggest merge as the default strategy. Team-members who are very comfortable with git can use rebase for a cleaner history. The problems with making rebase the default policy are:

  • Team members must be mindful of when a rewritten commit history would be problematic. Force-push must be enabled on the remote, and you should be sure nobody is referencing your branch.
  • When you resolve conflicts during a rebase, you resolve each commit independently, which can be more work than just resolving a single merge commit.

That said I like doing rebase myself in many situations.