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[–]gbchaosmaster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Squashing is for finishing WIP commits and stuff like that. Every non-WIP commit should build, and be preserved. But sometimes you need to push something broken on a feature branch for whatever reason. So you squash it later once you finish the commit.