## Problem to Solve In some cases, it may not be desirable to automatically rebase and merge a merge request. This could be because the pipelines are very old, or the commits will be rewritten and lose signatures, or any other reason a user may not want this to happen. ## Proposal We need to introduce some new settings to make this a configuration option - either decided at the time of merge, or decided for the project entirely. ### Option 1 A new setting is introduced in the merge method that either enables or disables this behavior globally if a merge method that supports automatic rebase is being used:  ### Option 2 Introduce a new section that allows more advanced configuration of the rebase options (similar to existing squash options):