On 2019-5-23 06:49 , Rainer Müller wrote: > As a reference for everyone, we are talking about this commit in this > thread: > https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/commit/8636b39946229023fecc2c8c5d99be1b0a0bccd1 > > On 22.05.19 01:06, Christopher Jones wrote: >> Its a merge commit, i.e. the committer at some point pulled in changes to a >> branch which they subsequently pushed to master without rebasing. > > Jann, I assume you just ran 'git pull' which created this merge commit. > The better option would have been to run 'git pull --rebase' to avoid > this merge and place your new commit on top of the existing > macports-ports master.
Discussion on IRC indicates it was done from the GitHub web UI. - Josh
