The issue with a lot of freedom and unopinionated tools is always going to be the multitude of ways to fuck up. On the flip-side, you may not like what choices are made if you’re forced to use it in a certain way.
We enforce a strict pull-request squish commit with four eyes approval only. You can’t force push, you can’t rebase, you can’t not squish or whatever else you’d want to do. But we don’t pretend that is the “correct” way to use Git, we think it is, but who are we to tell you how to do you?
We take a similar approach to how we use Typescript. We have our own library of coding “grammar?” that you have to follow if you want to commit TS into our pipelines. Again, we have a certain way to do things and you have to follow them, but these ways might not work for anyone else, and we do sometimes alter them a little if there is a good reason to do so.
I don’t personally mind strict and opinionated software. I too think Git has far too many ways to fuck up, and that is far too easy to create a terrible work environment with JavaScript. It also takes a lot of initial effort to set rules up to make sure everyone works the same way. But again, what if the greater community decided that rebase was better than squash commit? Then we wouldn’t like Git, and I’m sure the rebase crowd feels the same way. The result would likely leave us with two Gits.
Though I guess with initiatives like the launch here, is two Gits. So… well.