Merge Commits Are Just Noise

· Max Glenister · June 1, 2026, 10:19 p.m.
Summary
The author critiques merge commits in Git as unnecessary noise, advocating for a rebase-based workflow to maintain a cleaner, linear project history. The post shares both arguments for this approach and details about branch structures for team feature work.
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