Re: Proposal: Encourage squashing commits when merging

2025-05-15 Thread Soumyadeep Ghosh
This have been a problem for me also, like I have created multiple commits, and then when the MR is being merged, I would request the maintainer to specifically squash and merge to keep the consistancy. But they might forget, or that MR might be very insignificant to give it a 2nd thought. How e

Re: Proposal: Encourage squashing commits when merging

2025-05-15 Thread Ben Cooksley
On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 4:16 AM Volker Krause wrote: > On Donnerstag, 15. Mai 2025 16:55:01 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit Felix > Ernst > wrote: > > Gitlab allows squashing commits while merging. I suggest to have the > > checkbox for this ticked by default. Contributors would still be able to > >

Re: Proposal: Encourage squashing commits when merging

2025-05-15 Thread Volker Krause
On Donnerstag, 15. Mai 2025 16:55:01 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit Felix Ernst wrote: > Gitlab allows squashing commits while merging. I suggest to have the > checkbox for this ticked by default. Contributors would still be able to > untick it as they see fit. > > I think "encouraging squashing" i

Re: Proposal: Encourage squashing commits when merging

2025-05-15 Thread Konstantin Kharlamov
On Thu, 2025-05-15 at 16:55 +0200, Felix Ernst wrote: > Gitlab allows squashing commits while merging. I suggest to have the > checkbox for this ticked by default. Contributors would still be able > to untick it as they see fit. > > I think "encouraging squashing" is the better default because Git