Hello, > You should include Joel on such questions as the expert on the hooks. > > I don't know whether there's something to put in the commit message to say > "allow this merge of more than 100 commits". I don't think a squashed > merge is the right workaround, supposing you do want the git ancestry > information to reflect what got merged. The simple workaround is to do > three successive merges, each of under 100 commits and each pushed > separately. Alternatively, you could check out refs/meta/config, push a > change that either increases hooks.max-commit-emails or sets > hooks.no-emails to prevent mails for this branch, then push the merge, > then push a reversion of the change to refs/meta/config.
Joseph pretty much nailed it in terms of options. -- Joel
