github merge rules update

[lennart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Lennart Poettering)]

On Do, 10.05.18 06:49, Zbigniew JÄ?drzejewski-Szmek (zbyszek at in.waw.pl) wrote:

> To systemd repo committers:
> 
> an investigation in https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/8665
> done by filbranden showed that github's "rebase & merge" button works
> better than the "squash & merge" version. The authorship and original
> timestamps on the commit are not mangled. Hence, let's mostly use
> "rebase & merge" for single commits instead of "squash & merge".
> 
> New rules:
> â?? single commit â?? rebase
> â?? a bunch of fixup commits that should be one â?? squash
> â?? more than one commit â?? merge

No if only github was smart enough to default to "rebase" for single
commits and "merge" for multiple commits in a PR... I figure the
fix-up case is the clear outlier after all...

Lennart

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