Fast‑Forward vs. Merge Commit: Which Strategy Balances Linear History with Feature Traceability?
Fast‑Forward and Merge Commit are the two primary merge strategies available in Bitbucket. The choice directly influences how a repository’s commit graph appears, how teams can trace feature integration, and how clean the branch history remains. Fast‑Forward keeps the graph linear, reduces merge commits, and simplifies bisect operations, but it can hide the
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