Your company uses Azure DevOps for the management of build and release pipelines for applications. A Git repository is used for application source control. You have to implement a pull request strategy that reduces the history volume in the master branch. 
You decide to implement a pull request strategy that uses an explicit merge. 
Would this fulfill the requirement?

Answer options:

A.Yes
B.No

Answer – B 
For this, you should opt for using squash merges in Git. 
For more information on squash merge, you can refer to the below link- 

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/repos/git/merging-with-squash?view=azure-devops