> The point of squash is that the "history" is nonsense like "fix" etc. […] Using squash when appropriate is good. But then it should be generalized to “rebase

> The point of squash is that the "history" is nonsense like "fix" etc. […] Using squash when appropriate is good. But then it should be generalized to “rebase” since that doesn’t ever imply a certain strategy like “squash everything”. > Blindly squashing every branch down into one commit is stupid, though. Yep, which is what OP is complaining about (mandatory squash).