Seems it's happened again since the mail went out. This seems like a silly thing to try to enforce by policy when it could be done through automation. Andrew, do you know if there's a way to have upstream reject pushes that include merge commits where all parents are from the same branch?
Thanks, Nick On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 3:59 PM, Andrew Purtell <apurt...@apache.org> wrote: > +1 > > On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 3:29 PM, Nick Dimiduk <ndimi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > Looks like a merge commit was recently pushed to master. I think we have > > the project policy to not merge changes, but rather rebase any local > > changes onto an update from upstream. > > > > The easiest way to avoid merge commits is to not use `git pull` but > instead > > use `get fetch` followed by `rebase`. If you prefer to use just a single > > command, `git pull --rebase` will do the trick. More options are > available > > here [0]. > > > > Thanks, > > Nick > > > > [0]: > > > http://kernowsoul.com/blog/2012/06/20/4-ways-to-avoid-merge-commits-in-git/ > > > > > > -- > Best regards, > > - Andy > > Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein > (via Tom White) >
