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What were your misconceptions about Git when you first started?
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If the MR is anything bigger than a completely trivial change in a file or 2, it most likely should be broken into multiple commits.
A feature is not atomic. It has many parts that comprise the whole.
In that case the feature is multiple MRs.
That's excessively bureaucratic to the point of being useless in most cases.
Hard and fast rules are generally bad and "squash everything" is pretty much a by definition hard and fast rule with the result being "I'm just not going to care that much about my commit messages."
What are you on? Non-descriptive commit messages has never been any of our problems. All our commits that are pushed to the main branch are well written with clear issues linked to them.