Thanks for the tip, Andrew. I’ll give that a try. I may yet come to love merge commits!
I saw that Michael reset “site”. Thank you - I think it was the right choice in this case. > On Jul 20, 2018, at 11:54 AM, Andrew Pilloud <apill...@google.com> wrote: > > git log --simplify-merges is probably what you are looking for. Merges are a > important tool in busy public repos. > > On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 2:49 PM Michael Mior <mm...@apache.org > <mailto:mm...@apache.org>> wrote: > I'm fine with that. I can always reset and do a force push. > > -- > Michael Mior > mm...@apache.org <mailto:mm...@apache.org> > > Le ven. 20 juil. 2018 à 14:38, Julian Hyde <jh...@apache.org > <mailto:jh...@apache.org>> a écrit : > > > > Michael, > > > > I saw you merged the site branch. I had been thinking of instead doing a > > rebase. > > > > I did a test rebase a few days ago and was pleased to see that it went > > smoothly — meaning that every commit in “site” had also been made to > > “master” — and it ended up pointing to the same commit as master. > > > > In my opinion, merge commits are fine in personal repos but they are not > > great in public repos because they usually obfuscate history. (Maybe I just > > haven’t found the right tools to view them.) In this case, I think ‘git > > checkout site; git rebase origin/master; git push origin site’ would have > > been better. > > > > Julian > > > > On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 2:49 PM Michael Mior <mm...@apache.org > <mailto:mm...@apache.org>> wrote: > I'm fine with that. I can always reset and do a force push. > > -- > Michael Mior > mm...@apache.org <mailto:mm...@apache.org> > > Le ven. 20 juil. 2018 à 14:38, Julian Hyde <jh...@apache.org > <mailto:jh...@apache.org>> a écrit : > > > > Michael, > > > > I saw you merged the site branch. I had been thinking of instead doing a > > rebase. > > > > I did a test rebase a few days ago and was pleased to see that it went > > smoothly — meaning that every commit in “site” had also been made to > > “master” — and it ended up pointing to the same commit as master. > > > > In my opinion, merge commits are fine in personal repos but they are not > > great in public repos because they usually obfuscate history. (Maybe I just > > haven’t found the right tools to view them.) In this case, I think ‘git > > checkout site; git rebase origin/master; git push origin site’ would have > > been better. > > > > Julian > >
