I think a lot of the people who use merge do so because that’s what they learned initially. Anecdotally, a lot of my coworkers who use merge are conceptually t

I think a lot of the people who use merge do so because that’s what they learned initially. Anecdotally, a lot of my coworkers who use merge are conceptually trying to stack their commits on top of previous ones. My lukewarm take: most of the time, rebase is actually the intended operation and merge is used as a hammer.