A PR has many 'merge from main' commits. Reviewers ask to clean it up. What do you do and why?

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Interactively rebase the feature branch onto the latest main and squash noisy merges into logical commits. This yields a linear, readable history while preserving meaningful changes. Avoid rewriting history only after the branch is shared publicly unless teammates agree.

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A PR has many 'merge from main' commits. Reviewers ask to clean it up. What do you do and why?

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Explanation

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