Re: merge summaries

Steffen Prohaska [off-list ref] writes:

What is so wrong if merge summaries of pulls from you were committed
to topic branches. Later when you pull such branches the summaries
shouldn't be a problem. A short-log of the topic branch wouldn't
contain the summaries.

Probably I do not fully understand what "the wrong way around" means.

I think you understand it very well.

As long as you stay as a "pull-only" person, and will never ask
the upstream to pull back from you, what first parent log would
show would make perfectly good sense.  However, once a pull from
you by the upstream happens, the resulting history would get the
summary in the merge you did, which is totally unwanted --- the
upstream already had those summarized commits long time ago in
its history.