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I write really poopy commit messages. Think "WIP" type nonsense. I branch off of the trunk, even my branch name is poopy like

feature/{first initial} {last initial} DONOTMERGE {yyyy-MM-dd-hh-mm-ss}

Yes, the branch name literally says do not merge.

I commit anything and everything. Build fails? I still commit. If there is a stopping point and I feel like I might want to come back to this point, I commit.

I am violently against any pre commit hook that runs on all branches. What I do on my machine on my personal branch is none of your business.

I create new branches early and often. I take upstream changes as they land on the trunk.

Anyway, this long winded tale was to explain why I rebase. My commits aren't worth anything more than stopping points.

At the end, I create a nice branch name and there is usually only one commit before code review.





Isn't your tale more about squashing than rebasing?

Any subsequent commits and the branch are inherently rebased on the squashed commit.

Rebasing is kind of a short hand for cherry-picking, fixing up, rewording, squashing, dropping, etc. because these things don't make sense in isolation.


I guess my point is that I disagree that rebasing should be shorthand for all these things that aren't rebasing.

Well rebasing is exactly equivalent to moving the branch and then cherry-picking, and the others are among the commands available in rebase --interactive.

Personally i squash using git rebase -i



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