On 31/10/2011 13:57, Matthew Brush wrote:
I'm not sure we would see a flood on a merge, probably only one commit saying 'merged gtkbuilder branch'? The gtkbuilder commits should appear as they are committed, not on merge.
I think when you merge it makes all the commits onto the branch that was merged into also. At least this is what happened on the xfce-commits list when one of the devs merged several branches with a total of 800+ commits in them, each triggering a commit mail :)
Ok, but ideally it would do as I described, like the github commit list for the scintilla-update merge:
https://github.com/geany/geany/commits
Isn't --no-ff or --squash not able to prevent this?
IMO, it's not good to mess with the history just to avoid triggering commit mails.
Agreed. Besides I would forget to pass those options ;-)