On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 5:47 AM, Mark Miller <markrmil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 6:28 PM Gus Heck <gus.h...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Will the process still involve a patch in Jira? In which case things are >> effectively squashed anyway... >> > > Yes, patches in JIRA will still be the primary force, with our secondary > GitHub integration hooks. Agreed, 3rd party submissions will get effectively > squashed anyway.
In the Git world users are happy give a pull request instead of a patch. Why do you think patches in Jira will be the primary force? > > This linear history topic was mainly meant for the few committers we have > that have not really used Git. Committers will work within a repo, and even > if they put up a patch, likely commit from that same work. > > Basically, we are agreeing to keep a merge commit out of places where it > only adds confusion. Whether that is done via rebase or squash or some other > git fu, we probably can't really mandate, nor do we need to. > > I trust that people that use Git are not going to go in and do tons of crazy > stuff. We want the people that don't use Git to keep things sane as well. > > - Mark > -- > - Mark > about.me/markrmiller -- ----------------------------------------------------- Noble Paul --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
