Re: Merging release branch

[Gregory Heytings]

> A server-side check could be used to do the check "lazily" and only do 
> one merge commit per day (or week, etc), rather than filling the master 
> history with merge commits (where their ration to "real" commits could 
> be approaching 100% if we ask everyone to merge right away).

And why would that be a problem?  It's a commit to two branches, one 
branch has a merge commit for each commit on the other branch.