• BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca
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    Sometimes there’s no other option when someone merged develop into master just before a critical bug was found.

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      You can always revert (i.e. undo in a new commit) the faulty commit. That will keep the history. This meme is not just about pushing straight to master, it’s about push --force which overwrites the remote branch completely, changing history.

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        What happens when you want to merge again? Won’t it say already up to date or something cause the commits are already there?

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          Revert doesn’t just move head back, it creates reversal commits. As such, merging again can happen since the changes are present and require a merge commit

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          You could just rebase your develop branch to a commit before the merge and have a different commit history, or actually do it properly and have squash merges.

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            do it properly and have squash merges

            If you have big features that deletes a lot of maybe important commit history.

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        Sometimes there’s only the nuclear option left, I have only done it a few times, someone merged a major refactoring and we ended up reverting by changing history.

        I have also observed that when you revert with git revert and then merge back some time later git can get confused about if a commit was merged or not.

        Mind you we didn’t use git flow or other smart processes to our own regret.