[aerogear-dev] Git PR Merging

Daniel Passos daniel at passos.me
Tue Jul 30 10:07:57 EDT 2013


+ 9001

Karel Piwko wrote:
> +1
> On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 07:27:55 -0500
> Kris Borchers<kris.borchers at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> Hey all, can I make a suggestion to reduce e-mail noise when merging PRs?
>> Basically, I was the one that started doing the "thanks, landed in<sha>"
>> messages on merges. There is no reason to add those comments when the SHA
>> doesn't change. The only reason for those messages is to let the PR submitter
>> know where their change landed when the SHA is different and the PR has to be
>> manually closed.
>>
>> A standard merge will keep the SHAs intact and automatically close the PR,
>> which is the usual case for most PR merges. If you ever have to rebase a PR
>> for someone or you squash some of their commits then this would cause SHA
>> changes and a "landed in<sha>" message is helpful.
>>
>> Also, there is usually no reason to add a "Merged<PR#>" comment. Those are
>> either generated by GitHub when you merge or in the case described above, the
>> "landed in" message is good enough.
>>
>> Let me know if that doesn't make sense or if you have questions.
>>
>> Thanks!
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