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I used to like allowing squashing or fast-forward merges. Most PRs would be squashed, because most developers write terrible commit messages and use merge where they could rebase. But, if you had a well-crafted set of commits, we could retain them.

I’ve recently switched to using conventional commits and release-please everywhere, but that pretty much forces us into a squash-only world, since even the devs who write nice commit messages don’t want to make each commit a conventional commit; much nicer to do it as the PR title, and more visible

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