From: Dun Peal <dunpealer@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 19:28:09 GMT
Subject: Is there a way to add a default `--squash` flag for all merges into a head?
Message-ID: <9f02bed0-fa18-46b1-a3d3-346e1cc7dc01@k15g2000prk.googlegroups.com>

Hi,

Our main Git repository supports a lot of developers working on
multiple branches from master. Whenever the work on a branch is
finished, the branch-owning developer(s) merge it back to master. That
merge is always done with a `--squash` flag to avoid the 50+ levels
deep graph we would end up with if everyone just used a true merge.

There's a configuration feaute `branch.<name>.rebase` for specifying
that all merges into a branch (master in this case) would be done by
rebase, so I was expecting a similar feature for always squashing back
(since some developers may forget to add the flag). Unfortunately, I
couldn't find it. Does it exist?

Thanks, D.