There is a long and somewhat labored explanation of how we came to
where we are today: zguide.zeromq.org/page:all#toc130

tl;dr complex repositories are hard to scale to more people.

On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 12:13 AM, Lindley French <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm a fan of gitflow, I think it's great.
>
> I'm still getting a feel for how the forking model works.
>
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> On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Pieter Hintjens <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> it's because that project isn't using pull requests, but one person
>> committing directly to master. We abandoned that model some years ago
>> as inherently unstable and unscalable.
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 11:37 PM, crocket <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > I just came by https://github.com/nanomsg/nanomsg/commits/master , which
>> > is
>> > M.sustrick's new endeavor, and I was surprised that it didn't have any
>> > merge
>> > commits.
>> > It looked cleaner than with github's usual merge commits.
>> > So I wanted ZeroMQ people to just imagine another possibility.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 3:54 AM, Pieter Hintjens <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Michel Pelletier
>> >> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > Feature developers should be responsible for squashing their commits
>> >> > before
>> >> > submitting the PR.  It's a simple git rebase command.
>> >>
>> >> Yes, and it's specified in our process that one change should be one
>> >> commit. However it's the merge itself that adds another commit, which
>> >> Crocket is referring to here.
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