Ok Jan, then we're in agreement.

I think the "merge master into master" message occurs when someone has
their own fork and merges the official master in the web interface.

We should ask that people don't do that. I.e don't merge anything into your
topic branch unless it's for a good reason.

Martin
19. jun. 2015 21.32 skrev "Jan Blechta" <[email protected]>:

> On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 18:30:26 +0100
> "Garth N. Wells" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On 19 June 2015 at 17:21, Jan Blechta <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > > Next has been (at least once) accidentally merged into master.
> > >
> > > $ git branch --contains 832946b
> > > * master
> > >   morandini/add-matrix-get-diagonal
> > >   next
> > > $ git show --oneline  832946b
> > > 832946b Merge branch 'logg/fix-issue-328' into next
> > >
> > > I think that master should be carefully examined that it does not
> > > contain any throw-away changes. Any opinions here?
> > >
> > > Next time, please, avoid this. More generally, we should reduce
> > > using merge as a tool for resolution of every problem - merging from
> > > everything to everything. I think it happens too often and history
> > > is unreadable many times.
> > >
> >
> > Maybe you could write-up some guideline/instruction notes to help us
> > use rebase to keep the history cleaner?
>
> I don't want to encourage more rebasing but less (non-fast-forward)
> merging. Everybody should read and follow
> https://bitbucket.org/fenics-project/dolfin/wiki/developer-instructions-git
>
> On the other hand, integration of topic branches (into master)
> shouldn't typically be fast-forward:
>   (master) $ git merge --no-ff author/topic
>
> Jan
>
> >
> > Garth
> >
> > > Jan
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