+1 from me as well. As is, we don’t use the existing merge button, so we might as well change it to something we*may* use in a handful of situations. And those situations tend to be squashed anyway...
On 04/08/2016 07:46 AM, Davide D'Alto wrote: > +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 <sa...@hibernate.org> > 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@lists.jboss.org >> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev >> > _______________________________________________ > hibernate-dev mailing list > hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev
