On 28/12/2019 12:19, Segher Boessenkool wrote: > Branch merges do not mesh well with our commit policies, fwiw: > everything should normally be posted for public review on the mailing > lists. This does not really work for commits that have been set in > stone months before. >
I disagree. The review comments will show up as additional commits on the branch and can be tracked back to such events. Once history gets flattened into a major single commit it's significantly more effort to drill down into the history and find out why if we've lost the merge information. R.