Re: [IMP-dev] Please make sure you clean up commits before pushing to github/develop
To: List for IMP development <>
Subject: Re: [IMP-dev] Please make sure you clean up commits before pushing to github/develop
From: Daniel Russel <>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:31:43 -0700
Reply-to: List for IMP development <>
Some updated instructions have been added to the wiki page. And, please rerun setup_git next time you pull. That will make things a bit cleaner, I think.
On Apr 22, 2013, at 3:17 PM, Daniel Russel <> wrote:
> Part of the point of git is that you can commit and share patches without pushing them to the main branch and so can make sure things are clean before you do.
>
> Specifically
> - make sure there are no commits adding README.md files to the root directory
> - make sure there are no "Merge " commits in the history.
>
> You can use git log to look for such commits and
> git rebase -i HEAD~some_number
> To edit the last some_number of branches (to delete them clean up the commit messages, merge branches).
>