Me too. I care a LOT about provenance. And squash merge completely breaks that. When my branch is up to date with `main` I can build an artifact, fast forward

Me too. I care a LOT about provenance. And squash merge completely breaks that. When my branch is up to date with `main` I can build an artifact, fast forward merge that branch into `main` and RETAIN the artifact, and merely update its tags to mark it as `merged` in. With a squash I lose that information. Now, GitHub does not allow me to do a fast-forward merge but I can still trace the 2 commits that are the parent of the resultant merge, and find the artifact based on that, and retag.