From: Robin Rosenberg Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 23:24:45 GMT Subject: Re: How to change merge message ("weenie commits") Message-ID: <200701270024.46116.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> In-Reply-To: <17848.54065.631799.755255@lisa.zopyra.com> torsdag 25 januari 2007 16:56 skrev Bill Lear: > So, when I merge my topic branch onto master, for example, I'd like > the commit message to be something more thoughtful than the > "checkpoint 1", "checkpoint 2", "fix typo", "redo sort algorithm", > etc., etc., and be more like a short set of release notes, a summary > of what all has been accomplished. > > Do others run into this and perhaps have a good solution? I agree with Karl. Stacked Git is the tool. It doesn't help in splitting muliple changes to one file so you have to do that manually with e.g. emacs. -- robin