Anecdotally, I feel it's less common than merge commits. There are plenty of places driven by the "Merge Pull Request" button in GitHub and that's the default f

Anecdotally, I feel it's less common than merge commits. There are plenty of places driven by the "Merge Pull Request" button in GitHub and that's the default functionality. In personal projects or those with fewer developers, I prefer rebase + FF merge for a clean history. I don't really feel the need to see the merge commit in the master branch history.