[jboss-as7-dev] How to fast-forward a pull request in github?

[Brian Stansberry]

We end up doing it manually, checking out the branch and then a

git rebase upstream/master

Unfortunately, like you say, the Big Green Button *always* produces a 
merge commit, even if the branch being merged is up-to-date with master.

On 8/24/11 3:08 PM, David Bosschaert wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> When applying a pull request in Github (using the Big Green Button that
> says 'Merge Pull Request') this always creates a merge commit which is
> something that we generally don't like (I think ;)
>
> How people generally apply pull requests with a fast-forward for a
> cleaner commit history? Is there some handy command that people use for
> this?
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
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