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We disabled merge commits on all of our repositories on Github, and rebase is used seldom - meaning that when you do merge you are presented with an edit box fo
by julik 7y ago
We disabled merge commits on all of our repositories on Github, and rebase is used seldom - meaning that when you do merge you are presented with an edit box for the squashed commit message. This incentivises one to actually write good prose inside that box. We are not perfect but getting there.
- Rondom 7y agoThat's interesting. Working in an organisation that switched from Gerrit to Github, I saw a decline in commit message quality. Some people will just leave whatever is filled into the textbox by GitHub. In addition, there is no way for others to review the commit message this way.