[Geany-devel] Commit messages on merges

[Matthew Brush]

On 12-03-04 07:07 AM, Colomban Wendling wrote:
> Le 04/03/2012 09:28, Frank Lanitz a écrit :
>> On Sun, 04 Mar 2012 03:40:29 +0100
>> Colomban Wendling<lists.ban at herbesfolles.org>  wrote:
>>
>>> IMO we should not record merges when there is only one single commit
>>> or when the commits are unrelated (though the latter should probably
>>> be less common) and rather rebase or cherry-pick the commits.
>>>
>>> However, we must keep the merge when the commits are a whole thing not
>>> to lose that information (when several commits are needed to
>>> implement a single thing).
>>
>> I agree. And in second case we have to keep care that merge message is
>> informative enough to don't go into complete tree just to understand
>> what have been done there. Personally I started using the git merge
>> command from command line more often instead of github's web interface
>> as its not satisfying my understanding.
>
> Same for me, moreover because I prefer to test the PR locally as a
> simple branch before doing the merge, so it's not much effort than using
> the GitHub UI, and it's a lot more powerful.
>

Same here, but I don't think it matters whether using `git merge` or the 
Github GUI to do it, there's still a need to change the default merge 
message (apparently).

Cheers,
Matthew Brush