Were you annoyed by Packit creating divergent branches in your package's dist-git repository? You'll be happy to know that Packit now supports a new dist_git_branches syntax that enables fast-forwarding commits between branches.
What's New
When defining a propose-downstream or pull-from-upstream job, you can use the new dist_git_branches syntax.
dist_git_branches:
rawhide:
fast_forward_merge_into: [fedora-branched]
epel-9: {}
In this example, Packit runs the downstream synchronization process for the rawhide and epel-9 branches as usual. Additionally, Packit opens a new pull request, reusing the commit from rawhide, for every fedora-branched branch, allowing it to be fast-forwarded when merging.
Do you want to know more? Look at the non-divergent dist-git branches guide