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I often find it useful to arrange things so that each commit on master's first-parent is a discrete change. It allows git log --first-parent --oneline to be used as a concise, automatically-generat...
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by
Alexei
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2020-09-02T15:52:16Z (over 3 years ago)
I often find it useful to arrange things so that each commit on master's first-parent is a discrete change. It allows `git log --first-parent --oneline` to be used as a concise, automatically-generated changelog. There are various ways this can get screwed up. The one I'm most aware of arises from rhombus topologies, where master was merged into a topic branch, perhaps to resolve merge conflicts ahead of submitting a PR: ``` A---B---D <----master \ \ E---F---G <---topic ``` Here, when merging topic back into master, you get a fast-forward merge by default, and the resulting parents are backwards. On the other hand, if you avoid fast-forward merges, you get useless merge bubbles instead. That's not ideal, either: ``` A---B---C <----master \ / \ / d e ``` I would like to set things up so that, by default, parent swapping doesn't happen and merge-bubbles are avoided. I'd like this policy to "travel with the repo", so my teammates don't have to worry about whether they're doing the right thing. Is this possible? As I understand it, git has hooks for controlling its behavior, but I don't know if this is a thing they can do.
#1: Initial revision
by
ajv
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2020-09-01T21:42:19Z (over 3 years ago)
How do I customize merge behavior for a shared git repo?
I often find it useful to arrange things so that each commit on master's first-parent is a discrete change. It allows `git log --first-parent --oneline` to be used as a concise, automatically-generated changelog. There are various ways this can get screwed up. The one I'm most aware of arises from rhombus topologies, where master was merged into a topic branch, perhaps to resolve merge conflicts ahead of submitting a PR: ``` A---B---D <----master \ \ E---F---G <---topic ``` Here, when merging topic back into master, you get a fast-forward merge by default, and the resulting parents are backwards. On the other hand, if you avoid fast-forward merges, you get useless merge bubbles instead. That's not ideal, either: ``` A---B---C <----master \ / \ / d e ``` I would like to set things up so that, by default, parent swapping doesn't happen and merge-bubbles are avoided. I'd like this policy to "travel with the repo", so my teammates don't have to worry about whether they're doing the right thing. Is this possible? As I understand it, git has hooks for controlling its behavior, but I don't know if this is a thing they can do.