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Re:Two Years of Squash Merge (2019) by sjoruk on Friday April 30, 2021 @03:50PM (#26998417)
> many of those commits won't represent a fully working system anyway

This is entirely within the control of the developer(s) working on the project. Whether it's worth it is up to the people working on it. It's certainly not insane though - it's much easier to fix merge/rebase conflicts when each commit is small and easy to reason about.

Re:Two Years of Squash Merge (2019) by finnh on Friday April 30, 2021 @05:05PM (#26999323)
> it's much easier to fix merge/rebase conflicts when each commit is small and easy to reason about.

I agree, but I'd say it in the context of PRs. It's much easier to fix issues (and avoid them) when _PRs_ are small & easy to reason about.