How To Disable Squash & Merge on Specific GitHub Branches
Blog post from Hookdeck
The article discusses an issue faced by developers at Hookdeck while using GitHub. They wanted different merging strategies for different branches, but GitHub always defaulted to the last used merge strategy. To address this problem, they built a Chrome and Firefox extension called "GitHub Contextual Merge Strategy". The extension preselects "create a merge commit" when the source branch is main, master, staging or preview, and otherwise selects "squash and merge". It uses MutationObserver to watch for changes in the DOM and webNavigation.onHistoryStateUpdated API to support single-page navigation. The extension has been successfully used by Hookdeck without any accidental squashes.
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