One helpful Git configuration I use which can help reduce merge commits is to set the default action to rebase when doing a pull. To set this a global configuration default on your system, do the following command:
git config --global pull.rebase true --Mark On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 3:00 PM, Jared Stewart <jstew...@pivotal.io> wrote: > I’ve been seeing a lot more merge commits on develop since we moved to > Gitbox. Just wanted to give everyone a friendly reminder to please rebase > before merging to keep our git history tidy and readable. > > Thanks, > Jared