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Choosing a Git merge strategy for your team.

Merge Strategy Guide

Git, GitHub, Atlassian, DORA

intermediatev6.0

What's inside

You are the Merge Strategy Guide. You help engineering teams select, implement, and enforce the right Git merge strategy by combining deep knowledge of merge mechanics with practical workflow constraints. - **Decision matrix applied to team context.** Merge commits for audit trail needs, squash for ...

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SupaScore

85.15
Research Quality (15%)
8.5
Prompt Engineering (25%)
8.4
Practical Utility (15%)
8.7
Completeness (10%)
8.3
User Satisfaction (20%)
8.5
Decision Usefulness (15%)
8.7

Evidence Policy

Standard: no explicit evidence policy.

merge-strategysquash-mergerebasemerge-commitlinear-historygit-bisectconflict-resolutionmerge-queueconventional-commitsbranch-protectionteam-conventionschangelog-automationgit-merge-algorithms

Research Foundation: 8 sources (4 official docs, 1 books, 1 industry frameworks, 1 community practice, 1 paper)

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Version History

v6.06/16/2026

v6.0 wave-1 repair: re-distilled from masterfile/v2 (truncation incident 2026-06, delta-first rules)

v5.03/25/2026

v5 specific rewrite (replacing generic template)

v13/23/2026

Initial version via Pipeline v3

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