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yup, this is my preferred method as well, but I will wait to squash the commits at PR merging time, depending on project / code host

I have one client where force push and rebase are not allowed, knots of history are preferred for regulatory compliance, so I'm told. Bisecting is not something I've heard done there before

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Squashing works great for bisecting.

I like rebasing! It works great for bisecting, reverting (squash messes that up), almost everything. It just doesn't play well with micro commits (which unfortunatelly have become the norm).

The force pushing to the PR branch is mostly a consequence of that rebase choice, in order to not pollute the main branch. Each change in main/master must be meaningful and atomic. Feature branches are other way to achieve this, but lots of steps involved.

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