On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 12:55 PM, David Roden <bo...@pterodactylus.net>
wrote:

> On 25.03.2015, at 06:14, Steve Dougherty <st...@asksteved.com> wrote:
>
> > My inclination is to merge the unit of review. If the diff can be easily
> > described in a single commit summary, the pull request is squashed and
> > merged as a single commit.
>
> I really wish people would stop doing this. Commits are atomic units of
> work, building on one another (unless the person creating them is rather
> unorganized or is mixing several things in which case a pull request should
> probably also not be merged until those situations are cleaned up).
> Squashing commits destroys valuable information for no practical reason.
>

I completely agree.  It serves no useful purpose, and is entirely contrary
to widely established best-practices for using Github.

Ian.
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