From c87572d6e426099fa36e2cd8260319531ec0fbb8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Kaye <1917473+michaelkaye@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2020 16:21:09 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Update CONTRIBUTING.md about merging PRs. (#6846)

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 CONTRIBUTING.md      | 14 ++++++++++++++
 changelog.d/6846.doc |  1 +
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 create mode 100644 changelog.d/6846.doc

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 5736ede6c40c..4b01b6ac8ca2 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -200,6 +200,20 @@ Git allows you to add this signoff automatically when using the `-s`
 flag to `git commit`, which uses the name and email set in your
 `user.name` and `user.email` git configs.
 
+## Merge Strategy
+
+We use the commit history of develop/master extensively to identify
+when regressions were introduced and what changes have been made.
+
+We aim to have a clean merge history, which means we normally squash-merge
+changes into develop. For small changes this means there is no need to rebase
+to clean up your PR before merging. Larger changes with an organised set of
+commits may be merged as-is, if the history is judged to be useful.
+
+This use of squash-merging will mean PRs built on each other will be hard to 
+merge. We suggest avoiding these where possible, and if required, ensuring
+each PR has a tidy set of commits to ease merging.
+
 ## Conclusion
 
 That's it! Matrix is a very open and collaborative project as you might expect
diff --git a/changelog.d/6846.doc b/changelog.d/6846.doc
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+Add details of PR merge strategy to contributing docs.
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