Re: Merging release branch

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 31.10.2021 15:58, Gregory Heytings wrote:
> > 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.

More merge commits = more complex history = more effort one has to spent 
(sometimes) when reading it (busier 'git log --graph').

It's not a grave problem, but best to be avoided when we can.