[systemd-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Git development moved to github

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 04:34:03PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> David Herrmann [2015-06-02 13:06 +0200]:
> > Our preferred way to send future patches is "the github way". This
> > means sending pull-requests to the github repo. Furthermore, all
> > feature patches should go through pull-requests and should get
> > reviewed pre-commit. This applies to everyone. Exceptions are
> > non-controversial patches like typos and obvious bug-fixes.
> 
> Makes sense. On the operational level, should we use the
> "automatically merge" feature of git hub once approving? On the plus
> side it's very convenient, but you'll get one "Merge" commit for every
> PR (which is often just one commit), so we'd almost double the entries
> in "git log". Or can github be told to not do that?
> 
> Merging manually is quite a bit of work, as you have to add a new
> remote every time, fetch that, and pull from it. But it does keep a
> cleaner git log history.

FWIW,  'git log --no-merges' displays the "clean" history when
merges are present.

Regards,
Daniel
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