Re: [PATCH] have merge put FETCH_HEAD data in commit message

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Apr 4, 2007, 06:19 UTC
Message-ID: <20070404061958.GB30309@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vircc8ybz.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:

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> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@dev.mellanox.co.il> writes:
> > *Maybe* git can be even smarter, and notice that only
> > commit message has changed, and preserve the author automatically
> > in this case? I haven't looked at how hard that would be to do.
> 
> Maybe you can try what you complain about out before you rant?
> I amend other people's commit messages after the fact almost
> *every* *day*.

Me too. And I *know* Junio amends my stuff after applying it to git.git. Just look back at the history to see how many thinkos he's saved me from... ;-)

-- 
Shawn.

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