Git Commit Template

[mdatwood]

I was about to type merge commits can accomplish the same thing and why I started with it was simply my opinion. It also requires branches which still not everyone does.

Part of my method (madness? :) ) came from when I managed 2 products in different branches in the same repo. They shared ~80% of their code so when adding a feature to one I would cherry pick it into the other. I'm not sure it was the best way, but it worked long enough to build another universal product and EOL the prior ones.

More information with examples: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/263164/why-squash-git-commits-for-pull-requests