2015-01-12 18:46 GMT+01:00 singh.janmejay <[email protected]>:

> On the contrariety, I think merge commits are good. They tell the story of
> what things happened in parallel, why something is the way it is etc.
>
> Linear commit history is a departure from reality. One can rebase changes,
> but then that isn't a reflection of how commits were done originally. I
> think protecting natural order is valuable both in terms of ease of doing
> things and in terms of richer history of how changes were made.
>
>
yeah... in general, so many harm happens by pretending life to be other
than it is... :-)

Rainer

> --
> Regards,
> Janmejay
>
> PS: Please blame the typos in this mail on my phone's uncivilized soft
> keyboard sporting it's not-so-smart-assist technology.
>
> On Jan 12, 2015 10:29 PM, "Rainer Gerhards" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > OK, folks, let me give an update on the whole topic. I've now tried for a
> > couple of weeks to avoid merge entries in the git history. That approach
> > works, but it creates a lot of overhead and quite some confusion for a
> lot
> > of folks. Some users have voiced they don't really care if there is a
> merge
> > entry. Viewer have voiced they don't like them. Michael Biebl has pointed
> > out that it is easy to make them disappear from "git log".
> >
> > After careful consideration and some frustration, I conclude that
> avoiding
> > merge entries is unnecessary overhead for me. Being the 90%+ contributor
> > for this project, I conclude that avoigin merge entries is unncessary
> > overhead for the project. As such, I will no longer try to avoid them at
> > all costs. I will, however, try to keep the git history as neast as
> > *possible*, but not go any more length for that.
> >
> > As such, I'll reset the default branch on github to "master" and will
> > accept pull requests to master. Internally, everything still needs to go
> > through master-candidate, as this is how the new testbench setup
> requires.
> > If someone doesn't like this approach to the testbench, I am open to
> > changes, BUT I thank ask that someone to actually contribute running code
> > to make it happen. Good advise is good, but doesn't help getting things
> > done.
> >
> > Thanks again for all comments, I think they have considerable helped move
> > forward. Sorry that I could not accept all suggestions. I guess it's like
> > always in live: not everybody can be happy. But I hope we have achieved a
> > sufficient level of overall happiness :-)
> >
> > Rainer
> >
> > 2014-12-17 19:20 GMT+01:00 David Lang <[email protected]>:
> >
> > > Sounds like we need a bug filed with github. We can't be the only folks
> > > running into this sort of problem.
> > >
> > > David Lang
> > >
> > > On Tue, 16 Dec 2014, Rainer Gerhards wrote:
> > >
> > >  I even get a mail with the necessary git command for merge. But in the
> > gui
> > >> it looks unmerged.  Given all those long discussion we had on
> > encouraging
> > >> contributions, this looks like a "I won't merge anything" attitude
> which
> > >> tends to scare potential new contributors away.
> > >>
> > >> Sent from phone, thus brief.
> > >> Am 16.12.2014 21:33 schrieb "Tait Clarridge" <[email protected]>:
> > >>
> > >>  Is the information visible in the pull request so that the merge can
> be
> > >>>>
> > >>> done
> > >>>
> > >>>> manually? or is all of this hidden in the GUI?
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>> The requestor username and branch is visible in the GUI.
> > >>>
> > >>> An example title line looks like: "oldmantaiter wants to merge 1
> > >>> commit into rsyslog:master-omkafka from oldmantaiter:omkafka-merge"
> > >>>
> > >>> So yes, you could remote add https://github.com/oldmantaiter/rsyslog
> > >>> and then pull omkafka-merge in the above case.
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