Merge commits have two parents. This is currently disabled by the git hooks
I wrote. Which affects things like GH PR's being automatically closed when
merged to master etc.

The alternative method is to rebase commits to master which changes the
sha1 which prevents Git from automatically tracking what branches they're
on.


On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 9:43 PM, Jan Lehnardt <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On Nov 7, 2012, at 15:26 , Robert Newson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > All,
> >
> > After 1.3.0, we agreed to work on feature branches and bugfix branches,
> and
> > then merge the results down after review.
> >
> > We need a change to the git commit hooks to allow merge commits (they are
> > currently prohibited). Can I get some votes pls?
>
> Can you explain in two sentences each what the effective differences are?
> Just so we have it on record in this thread.
>
> Cheers
> Jan
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>
>

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