[racket-dev] git rebase/squash my commits before submitting a pull request?

From: Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (samth at cs.indiana.edu)
Date: Sun Oct 20 09:56:00 EDT 2013

I regularly rebase and force-update pull request commits. GitHub even
notices when a commit is out of date and hides the comments, if
they're made there. So I encourage you to do this.

Sam

On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 10:56 PM, David T. Pierson <dtp at mindstory.com> wrote:
> Thank you to everyone who provided feedback on my Guide chapter on
> concurrency.  I think I've addressed everyone's suggestions in my latest
> version [1].
>
> My question at this point is whether to rebase before submitting a pull
> request.  If the initial commit had not been made public I would
> obviously want to rebase and squash.  But since it was publicized here
> and people commented, should I leave it as is?
>
> Since this is a relatively minor patch, perhaps it doesn't matter so
> much for this time.  But it would be good to know whether there is a
> general rule for when not to rebase/squash.
>
> David
>
> [1] https://github.com/davidtpierson/racket/tree/concurrency-docs
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