Rebase should never be used. Or, if it is used, it should be treated as a dangerous thing to do that’s well outside the norm.
Most of the arguments in favor of rebase are by people fanatical about having a git history organized just so. It’s not worth the headache and effort. PRs are a better unit of work than commits in practice.
Configure GitHub or whatever you use to squash merge only and you’ll be good.
Since moving to this workflow I’ve had zero issues losing data due to a confusing git situation.
Most of the arguments in favor of rebase are by people fanatical about having a git history organized just so. It’s not worth the headache and effort. PRs are a better unit of work than commits in practice.
Configure GitHub or whatever you use to squash merge only and you’ll be good.
Since moving to this workflow I’ve had zero issues losing data due to a confusing git situation.