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Another question that followed my recent Git emails was, \" I assume you use rebase over merge?\"<\/p>\n\n
The short answer is \"yes\". I like to keep the history of my repositories clean and simple to read by keeping the logs linear and not full of merge commits.<\/p>\n\n
The longer answer is that I do merges, but only fast-forward merges, at least by default.<\/p>\n\n
If, when merging, Git can fast-forward my branch to the latest commit without creating a merge commit, it will do so.<\/p>\n\n
If not, I can then rebase my changes to make them linear and fast-forwardable. Alternatively, if the commits have already been pushed and cannot be overwritten, I can explicitly allow a non-fast-forward merge in that situation.<\/p>\n\n
I have Git configured to work this way as that's how I want it to work, and that configurability is something I like about Git.<\/p>\n\n
If you want to see how I have Git configured, my settings are in my dotfiles repository<\/a> (note this file is written in the Nix language as I use Nix to manage my configuration).<\/p>\n\n If you're working in a team, I'd suggest having a common configuration for everyone and defined rules for how you're going to use Git (branch names, merge or rebase, etc) to avoid inconsistencies.<\/p>\n\n ",
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