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Re: Proposal for the transition timetable for the move to GIT
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.