Linus isn't really talking about linear history here or forcing devs to rebase. He's just saying that the merge commit's message generated by the UI does not de

Linus isn't really talking about linear history here or forcing devs to rebase. He's just saying that the merge commit's message generated by the UI does not describe the features that were merged and the author of the commit is a gitlhub.com user. There's no discussion of git strategies here. I personally prefer merge commit and don't mind having a non linear history.