Why large companies and fast-moving startups are banning merge commits

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In fact there is never a way around merging, unless there is never parallel development.<p>Even after rebasing, a merge has to happen since the changeset of a feature can in general not be blindly applied after its base has changed.<p>To me banning merge commits does not solve the merge problem.