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Discussion on: Git Rebase Explained Simply

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Jacob Herrington (he/him)

For one thing, merging creates a merge commit which can clutter the git history. I don't feel as strongly about that as a lot of people do, but it's the most common argument for rebasing over merging.

Personally, I prefer rebasing because of the -i flag which allows you to re-order commits, reword their messages, squash, and manipulate commits in a bunch of cool ways!