Commit history in master repository

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 02/03/2012 08:58 AM, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> Hello,
>
> if we look at the commit history here:
>
> http://git.rtems.org/rtems/log/
>
> we see that some of our commits show up twice, e.g. "PR 1962/bsps -
> MVME162 Console Corrections and Improvements". We also have these merge
> commit messages.
These are part of the normal operation

> I think that it is better (please note that I am a Git
> novice) to use a rebase instead of a merge before we push changes
> upstream into the master branch.

This is entirely up to the user and therefore is out of your control. 
It's impossible to enforce this and would imply a massive restriction to 
a user's work-flow.

Ralf