On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 12:24 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > + Whether it is the initial round or a subsequent round, the topic > + may not build even in isolation, or may break the build when > + merged to integration branches due to bugs. There may already be > + an obvious and trivial improvements suggested on the list. The s/an// > + maintainer often adds an extra commit, with "SQUASH???" in its > + title, to fix things up, before publishing the integration > + branches to make it usable by other developers for testing. > + These changes are what the maintainer is not 100% committed to > + (trivial typofixes etc. are often squashed directly into the > + patches that needs fixing, without being applied as a separate s/needs/need/ > + "SQUASH???" commit), so that they can be removed easily as needed.