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What's your opinion on git rebase vs git merge? (lemmy.sdf.org)
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I basically only use git merge like Theo from T3 stack. git rebase rewrites your commit history, so I feel there's too much risk to rewriting something you didn't intend to. With merge, every commit is a real state the code was in.

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[–] ozr 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When "merging" in master/main before opening a pull request I always rebase any local commits I have, it does no harm but vastly reduces complexity of the commit tree - however, as soon as code from other branches enters the picture I merge