"Every commit is deployable" isn't at odds with merging multi-commit MRs, provided that the submitter actually did their job well. I find squash-merging to be a

"Every commit is deployable" isn't at odds with merging multi-commit MRs, provided that the submitter actually did their job well. I find squash-merging to be an ugly workaround, not a proper solution. Good non-trivial merge requests should usually consist of multiple commits that improve readability, revertability, cherry-pickability and blamability ;)