From 6aaa017b1e81f6eccc48ee4f6b52d25c49747554 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Florian Bruhin <me@the-compiler.org>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2022 08:58:20 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] doc: Discourage squashing for release (#9657)

Fixes #9655
---
 RELEASING.rst | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/RELEASING.rst b/RELEASING.rst
index 66775e7cf..b018dc489 100644
--- a/RELEASING.rst
+++ b/RELEASING.rst
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ Both automatic and manual processes described above follow the same steps from t
 
    Wait for the deploy to complete, then make sure it is `available on PyPI <https://pypi.org/project/pytest>`_.
 
-#. Merge the PR.
+#. Merge the PR. **Make sure it's not squash-merged**, so that the tagged commit ends up in the main branch.
 
 #. Cherry-pick the CHANGELOG / announce files to the ``main`` branch::