Re: Anyone have a commit hook for forbidding old branches from being merged in?
From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:52:33
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 02:37, Neal Kreitzinger [off-list ref] wrote:
It sounds like you're saying that people should rebase before merging to main. That means their merge would be a fast-forward. You could just reject anyone who has not done a current rebase. Then you could use this technique from the pre-rebase.sample hook to enforce up-to-date rebases:
That would be an overly invasive change to people's workflows. It's fine if you merge something in as long as the initial merge base isn't N days older than the current state of the mainline.