* Florian Schulze <[email protected]> [2016-02-18 13:57:01 +0100]:
> On 18 Feb 2016, at 13:20, Bruno Oliveira wrote:
> 
> >For PR:
> >
> >* where to target the PR: master vs feature branch
> >* make sure to include one or more tests
> >* add yourself to AUTHORS
> >* add a new CHANGELOG entry
> 
> CHANGELOG and AUTHORS entries easily cause merge conflicts. In a non public
> project we are currently experimenting with putting that info into the PR
> itself and the person merging the PR is responsible for updating it. With
> github this should even be possible through the web before merging, I just
> thought of that and haven't tried. So the author is still responsible for
> providing the info, but not directly in the files.

FWIW, another solution would be to add some empty lines and tell
people to pick a random non-empty line:

https://about.gitlab.com/2015/02/10/gitlab-reduced-merge-conflicts-by-90-percent-with-changelog-placeholders/

(Unfortunately the updated solution with a .gitattributes file didn't
work on GitHub, last time we tried)

Florian

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