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Re: [mylyn-reviews-dev] git best practices 
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 3:32 AM, Steffen Pingel
<steffen.pingel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the recent commit history looks a bit chaotic with a bunch of merge
> commits. I find it easier to follow changes if the history is linear
> and it would seem good practice to squash similar commits before
> pushing.

It's all a preference thing but I like a flat history also... rebase
is your friend :)

> Does anyone have best practices recommendations or guidelines that are
> used by other projects hosting sources in Git?

In EGit/JGit, we use this as a guide...

http://wiki.eclipse.org/EGit/Contributor_Guide#Granularity_of_Changes

-- 
Cheers,

Chris Aniszczyk
http://aniszczyk.org
+1 860 839 2465

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