why not use git rebase instead of git merge in dlang repos?

Seb seb at wilzba.ch
Wed Mar 7 21:55:07 UTC 2018


On Wednesday, 7 March 2018 at 21:03:52 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 12:42:52PM -0800, Timothee Cour via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> [...]
>
> On the contrary, I find using merge is easier to understand, 
> because it shows clearly individual commits within a single PR, 
> and also a linear series of merged PRs if you traverse down 
> master.  In fact, in my own projects I sometimes purposely use 
> `git merge --no-ff` to force a merge commit, because it shows 
> distinct lines of development more clearly.
>
> But I suppose this is one of the things reasonable people will 
> disagree on.
>
>
> T

OT: I don't know what you are doing, but you seem to be the only 
one who always creates new threads when replying. I assume you 
use nntp? Maybe something wrong with your client?


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