I basically only use git merge like Theo from T3 stack. git rebase rewrites your commit history, so I feel there’s too much risk to rewriting something you didn’t intend to. With merge, every commit is a real state the code was in.
Tbh, I hate both. I wish git recognized an attempt to sync with a parent branch without resulting in either altered history (rebase) or a difficult to view log graph (merge). I also hate that teams have to choose one or the other.
It would be nice if all git graph UIs could easily exclude parent branch merges (with a checkbox). I wrote a shell script that did that, but not everyone used it of course.
I rebase with parent branch until I create a PR. Hopefully, I’ll get reviews quickly and won’t have to sync with the parent branch before merging the PR into the parent. However, if the PR lives longer than I’d like and conflicts occur, I’ll merge from the parent branch into the local feature branch.
