The funny thing is — this is actually different from how OSS (the initial model that Git was built for) worked. Patches are just applied as a single linear comm

The funny thing is — this is actually different from how OSS (the initial model that Git was built for) worked. Patches are just applied as a single linear commit to the trunk branch. Committing the history of individual work to the source of truth remote was definitely not the intent of merges.