Alternatively you could join them at ground level (assuming you and a mate can lift a full-length run into place).
Then you could aim for the joints to fall between rafters, and butt join them, along with an additional timber plate on the back - glued and screwed into place.
This approach would have the advantage of getting the fascia perfectly straight (assuming the building is straight enough to accomodate it!)
Regardless of what approach you use - polyurethane glue is good for closing up and sealing watertight joints.
I would think most installers are much less fussy - at best you'd get some paint on the end grain of a butt joint on a rafter end.
If you sue a waterproof glue and the scarf joint, then if it ever does open up, the glue should ensure the ends don't soak up water, and the scarf will mean you don't get such and obvious visible line where the gap is.
(just because most installers CBA, does not mean you have to do the same!) ;-)
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