The Merge Button

And from 4 days ago: <a href="http://ejohn.org/blog/pulley/" rel="nofollow">http://ejohn.org/blog/pulley/</a><p>All that hard work for nothing. Damn, another company listening to the needs of their users. What are they thinking...

I like git a lot, but find that the more I hear about it, the more pitfalls I discover. The actual user interface often does not seem to have good defaults and just generally does things differently from how I expect.<p>So. I <i>love</i> that github is working to take you out of the command line. It is fabulous that they are working to make git easer to use at the same time as providing hosting space.

It's a nice feature. I had a chance to use it today, and it worked beautifully. Its biggest downside is that you don't have an opportunity to run tests without first pulling the changes into your working copy, so I don't see it coming into play very often in my workflow.

I really like how Github is always pushing new features all the time.

Amazing! This feature was long overdue.

This is an excellent idea and I look forward to actually using it. Thanks guys for making the world of distributed development and open source a better "place" to be!

I haven't tried it yet and trying it out would be quite a lot of work (set up a test repo, fork it, send pull request, merge), so I'm asking here first in the hope that somebody has already tried it:<p>is it possible to select the email address you want to make the merge commit as? My main email address I'm registered with github isn't the address I would want to make merge commits as.