Ah, you can learn the beauty of merge AND rebase at the same time then...
Here to 'present' feature branches, we take a feature development branch will all the associated crud... Once it's ready to merge, the dev checkouts a new 'please merge me' branch, resets (or rebase -i --autosquash) to the original head, and re-lay all the changes as a set of 'public' commits to the subsystems, with proper headings, documentation etc.
At the end, he has the exact same code as the dirty branch, but clean...
So he merges --no-ff the dirty branch in (no conflicts, same code!) and then the maintainer can merge --no-ff that nice, clean branch in the trunk/master.
What it gives us is a real, true history of the development (the dirty branch is kept) -- and a nice clean set of commits that is easy to review/push (the clean branch).
Here to 'present' feature branches, we take a feature development branch will all the associated crud... Once it's ready to merge, the dev checkouts a new 'please merge me' branch, resets (or rebase -i --autosquash) to the original head, and re-lay all the changes as a set of 'public' commits to the subsystems, with proper headings, documentation etc.
At the end, he has the exact same code as the dirty branch, but clean... So he merges --no-ff the dirty branch in (no conflicts, same code!) and then the maintainer can merge --no-ff that nice, clean branch in the trunk/master.
What it gives us is a real, true history of the development (the dirty branch is kept) -- and a nice clean set of commits that is easy to review/push (the clean branch).