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This is not a question to solve a problem, just to broaden my understanding of git.

I have a project that is basically a one-man effort, so it has just one branch on our gitlab server; on my development machine, I usually have a "generic" dev branch, and a quickfix branch when needed. I usually delete the quickfix branch after merging it on master, but I keep the dev branch active for longer periods, so there is a number of commits from dev to master as the project progresses.

When I merge dev on master, I usually use --squash to get rid of the irrelevant "development" commits; then the merge message I am proposed says, "squashed commit of the following", with a list of commits since the common ancestor, that is, the commit I created dev from, rather than the previous commit I merged. Of course I simply delete the default comment and write my own; yet, I am surprised that git does not realize that a merge from dev to master creates a new common ancestor for the two branches.

Again, not a problem: I can simply delete the dev branch and recreate it–actually, that's what I used to do before realizing that it was not necessary. Yet, I would like to understand why git does not consider a merge as a common ancestor for the branches. Maybe I am missing an option?

EDIT:

My merge strategy does the following:

Is there anyway to get the following, without deleting and recreating the dev branch?

I'm getting this error when I try to press the 'Add' button on a web application I'm building.

I am currently working on our FIX client to change the StreamingQuoteDuration on our quote requests to 2 minutes in order to work around a max stream limit imposed by our counterparty. I have encountered an issue with the Quote Cancel message that is received after 2 minutes. QuickFIX/n, the FIX library that our client uses, rejects the message stating that it is missing a required field - NoQuoteEntries (tag 295).

Our counterparty claims this is not a required field in their Rules Of Engagement document but I am unable to prevent QuickFIX from rejecting the message. Does anybody know how I can achieve this? I've asked the counterparty to include that tag but they are not able or willing to do so.

We are using the FIX 4.2 protocol. Here are the FIX logs from our quote messages log:

8=FIX.4.2|9=118|35=Z|34=31|49=[Redacted]|56=[Redacted]|52=20210510-10:43:16.428|117=*|298=1|131=EUR-GBP-EUR-1-20210512|10=065

8=FIX.4.2|9=129|35=3|34=1549=[Redacted]|52=20210510-10:43:16.792|56=[Redacted]45=31|58=Required tag missing|371=295|372=Z|373=1|10=063

I'm using TypeScript with React and I'm confused as to why TS can't tell that the below hook returns early if previous is undefined. It complains about previous.length ("Object is possibly undefined"), because it thinks previous could be undefined but that cannot be the case as the function would return early if so

I'm looking for a way to write content of a quickfix window to a file with a specific formatting, preferably in a way that is easily scriptable.

What I'm trying to achieve is a very light integration of Vim and ipdb:

1. I set 'breakpoints' as items on a quickfix list with mapping: nmap s :call setqflist([], 'a', {'items': [{'filename': @%, 'lnum':line('.'), 'text':'break'}]})
2. Write content of the quickfix to .pdbrc file with break file_path:line_number formatting
3. Run ipdb on specified script

I have a couple of commands printing files and line numbers as results. For example PHPUnit:

Say I have 10 lines in quickfix coming from 3 files: 1.txt, 2.txt, and 3.txt.

This is the version of vim that I am using

I have some windows opened in my vim (which were created using the split :split / :vsplit command). I also have a quickfix list populated with a list of files (which is the result of a grep command that I loaded using :cf command and then :copen).

When I have my cursor on one of the filenames listed in the quickfix, I can press Enter to open it. It will open its content as a new buffer and display it in one of the available windows. However, I would like vi to load this file in a specific window. Right now, it is using a window that I wanted to keep untouched. How to do that?