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

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

On 2 June 2015 at 15:56, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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.

I also like --first-parent a lot, that "squishes" the pull request
into the single commit in the log / graph (aka bzr style default log
output).

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Dimitri.
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