To me it depends on your goals: Do you want to use it to power versioning and CI? Do you want commits traceable to tickets/issues Do you want to do merge com

To me it depends on your goals: Do you want to use it to power versioning and CI? Do you want commits traceable to tickets/issues Do you want to do merge commits or squashes? Do you want to generate change logs from the commits? Different strategies will benefit different needs.