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Linus Torvalds on how and when to maintain a clean git history (2009)
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The only rule you need is: preserve history that is worth preserving.
99% of the time, that means you should squash commits in a PR. Most commits should be small enough that they don't need more fine grained history than one commit.
I will grant a couple of exceptions:
Unfortunately, if you enable merge queues on GitHub it forces you to pick one method for all PRs, which is kind of dumb. We just use squash merges for everything and accept that sometimes it's not the best.