On Tue, 27 Nov 2012 15:30:31 -0800 Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Stephen Rothwell <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > If that is what happened, it may be worth always using the --no-ff flag > > to git merge/pull to make sure that the top commit on your tree always > > has you as the committer (and maybe SOB). > > > > Linus, does that make sense in general for maintainers? > > No. That just hides the real problem - back-merges of random points in > history. > > Don't do them, people. EVER.
I was also thinking about the case where a developer does work based on the maintainer's published tree and then the maintainer pulls that work sometime later (when his published tree has not been updated in the mean time). -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell [email protected]
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