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> I've recently started to like squashing after usually preferring rebase merges, because with squashes I have an easy option to rewrite the commit message

And why couldn't you rewrite the commit messages while rebasing?

EDIT: oh, you mean from the GitHub webUI, I presume. Got it.

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> EDIT: oh, you mean from the GitHub webUI, I presume. Got it.

Yes, exactly, while reviewing and merging other peoples PRs. Technically I could still rewrite in other ways, but while squashing in the web UI was the most comfortable workflow.

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