[cfe-dev] [llvm-dev] [lldb-dev] [GitHub] RFC: Enforcing no merge commit policy

[Joerg Sonnenberger via cfe-dev]

On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 08:33:00AM -0700, Artem Dergachev via llvm-dev wrote:
> For the theoretical purposes, every git commit contains a full,
> self-contained snapshot of the source tree, and this snapshot has,
> theoretically, nothing to do with what the "previous" state of the tree was.
> It's easier not to think about commits as if they are diffs - think of them
> as of full snapshots. It's, of course, more efficient than that under the
> hood, but that's more or less irrelevant.

Can you please try to not just meta away a real-world concern raised by
people dealing with real-world code development? Many of us requesting a
clean linear history do this with full knowledge of how any changeset
based VCS works. That makes this mail kind of insulting to our
intelligence.

Joerg