Hello, Oleh Krehel <ohwoeo...@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi all, > > Was the issue of abundant "Merge branch 'maint'" commit messages > discussed before? I couldn't find a reference... > > It's not a big deal, really, but I personally prefer to have linear > history with commits that actually do stuff. And it should be easy to > switch to this style: just use the "rebase" instead of the "merge" > command. > > Anyway, it's a small thing, and if Nicolas or Bastien strongly like the > merge method I won't bring it up again. But if they don't care either > way, I think it's better to start rebasing. While I'm all for rebasing unpushed commits, short-lived feature branches, and throw-away integration branches, your suggestion would frequently rewrite the history of a long-lived public branch. -- Kyle
