Re: [hibernate-dev] Github offering new options about how the big "green button" to merge Pull Requests

+1 It seems sensible to me to use it for trivial pull request or where it makes sense to have a single commit. On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 12:30 PM, Sanne Grinovero <sanne(a)hibernate.org&gt; wrote: > Github now offers an option to not create the "merge commit" when you > want to merge a PR from the web ui. > > It comes at a significant cost though: it will merge the PR but squash > all commits in one. > > While initially thinking that doesn't help us at all, at second > thought: we really want any non-trivial code change to be checked out > locally, run the testsuite, and only then push. > > But let's say there's a trivial PR fixing some typos in documentation! > You look at it, looks good and then you really just want to say "go > ahead" and get back to more important matters. Besides, we have > Jenkins carefully testing these too and it will grey out the button if > the build fails, so there's some kind of last defence in case you > didn't notice that the "docs typo" PR actually sneaks in some real > problem. > > So I'd say we could enable this option with the "squashing" ? > > We would still refrain from using the green button for most patches, > but it could save some "boring process" minutes for those simpler > patches. > > I've enabled this option for Hibernate Search. We can seek team > consensus before actually using it (you're not supposed to use the > "green button" at all currently), I might at least have it default to > the less annoying option: if you do use it by mistake, it will squash > it all. > > The open question remains if we're ok to use it regularly for trivial > PRs, and if you want this switched on all Hibernate repositories. > > Thanks, > Sanne > _______________________________________________ > hibernate-dev mailing list > hibernate-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev > _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev