Hi,

What I’m using in most of Apache project:

- squash and merge on main branch
- cherry pick and/or merge PR on other branches.

What I like in merge commit is that you have the initial author and the 
committer who merged.

Regards
JB

> Le 14 janv. 2022 à 06:09, CalvinKirs <[email protected]> a écrit :
> 
> Hi guys,
> 
> 
> Currently, we have three ways to merge codes, we mostly use create a merge, 
> squash merge.
> 
> I suggest we use Squash Merge.
> 
> As you work on a feature branch, you often create small, self-contained 
> commits. These small commits help describe the process of building a feature 
> but can clutter your Git history after the feature is finished. As you finish 
> features, you can combine these commits and ensure a cleaner merge history in 
> your Git repository by using the squash and merge strategy.
> 
> And Create a Merge can cause our Git log to get messy and even lose some of 
> our git log (override).
> 
> If we encounter a large PR, we should split it up instead of creating a large 
> PR (which will result in a huge review effort, and if there are too many 
> issues, it will also result in a delayed merge of the PR, or even frequent 
> code conflicts), and then use Create a merge to merge it.
> 
> We can also see that most Apache projects will force the Squash Merge 
> approach, so I hope the community can reach a consensus, and if you have 
> different opinions, feel free to discuss.
> 
> 
> Best wishes!
> Calvin Kirs
> 

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