Comment by keybored

> The point of squash is that the "history" is nonsense like "fix" etc. […]

Using squash when appropriate is good. But then it should be generalized to “rebase” since that doesn’t ever imply a certain strategy like “squash everything”.

> Blindly squashing every branch down into one commit is stupid, though.

Yep, which is what OP is complaining about (mandatory squash).