Re: [boost] Seems like I need write-access to merge a PR

Subject: Re: [boost] Seems like I need write-access to merge a PR
From: Stefan Seefeld (stefan_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-10-25 18:29:50

On 25.10.2017 14:17, Vinnie Falco via Boost wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 11:03 AM, Fernando Cacciola via Boost
> <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> but even though I'm logged with my Github account, it appears I don't have
>> write-access to merge this PR.
> I'm not a fan of using the GitHub web interface to merge pull requests
> because this needlessly creates a "merge commit" (usually with one
> side of the merge having just one commit) which interferes with a
> linear history (I prefer a linear history except for when there are
> two ongoing topical branches that are merged at some point).
That is no longer true (and hasn't for quite a while). Nowadays the web
interface allows you to select different PR merge methods, including the
traditional merge commit, a "squash and merge", or a "rebase and merge".
It sounds like what you'd prefer is the latter, to make the history linear.

FWIW,

Stefan

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