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.
Ideally I’m working on a short lived branch that only I’m working on in which case I do a rebase from origin/master where I also touch up the history in case there are any “forgot x in the previous commit” type of commits before doing a merge request. I won’t rebase code someone else might have pulled, and I’ll quit rebasing if I get any non-trivial conflicts .