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Clean Git History Is a Professional Courtesy: Interactive Rebase wins

Until your branch is merged, your history is yours. After that, it belongs to the team (and company too). As developers, we spend much more time reading code than writing it.

  • Interactive rebase cleans Git history before merging.
  • Squashes, rewrites, drops, reorders, and edits commits.
  • Benefits code reviews, git bisect, and code maintainability.

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