I came here to say the same thing. The rebase option is awesome IMO because it causes git to show the commits in the chronological position of when they were ad

I came here to say the same thing. The rebase option is awesome IMO because it causes git to show the commits in the chronological position of when they were added to master rather than jumbled in back to when the author originally started working on it. But we still want merge commits to make it easy to find the pull request that introduced the change.