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Change to fast-forward merges for merge requests

design.gitlab.com already uses fast forward merges:

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/design.gitlab.com/commits/master

This has the benefit that for merges that in these repos are often just a few commits anyway and the history is a bit cleaner, which is nicer on integrations like in Slack:

Screenshot_2019-06-13_at_14.10.39

The only down-side so far is that it might not be so easy to navigate from such a commit to the MR page:

Screenshot_2019-06-13_at_14.11.26

I would argue that is an UX problem of GitLab 9Is there an issue for that) and that the fast-forward merge has more benefits than down-sides. Well cleaner history mainly.

I would be in favor of changing it for this project, what do the other maintainers think? Please vote with 👎 if you are not in favor or 👍 if you are in favor of changing it to FF merges. (Or leave comments)