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Re: On-branch topic description support?

From
Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Date
Jul 21, 2022, 14:41 UTC
Message-ID
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On Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 10:25:19PM -0700, Elijah Newren wrote:
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> Seems mostly reasonable, but I'm curious about one thing:
> 
> The cover letter material often includes stuff that would not make
> sense for the merge message (e.g. "Rebased this version on master
> because of conflicts with ...", "Changes since v3", "I'm a little
> unsure of the logic in Patch 5", "Patch 3 might be controversial; take
> a look", etc.)  Would there be some kind of syntax for specifying the
> part of the cover letter meant to be used in the merge commit message,
> or would we just start out with it pre-populating the commit message
> and expect the integrator to cull out the irrelevant parts?
Maybe reuse the scissors line, but throw away stuff after the scissors? E.g.:
    Subject: [PATCH v2 0/3] Implement foo
    This implements foo that is needed to...
    ...
    ...
    ...
    Signed-off-by: De Veloper <dev@example.com>
    Link: https://example.com/foo
    -- >8 --
    Note: I'm not sure about....
    ---
    Changes in v2:
     - Rewrote using libfoo
     - ...
    ---
    Diffstat, range-diff, etc.
    ---
    base-commit: abcde
    change-id: abcde-foobarbaz
-K
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  1. Junio C HamanoJul 20, 2022
  2. Shaoxuan YuanJul 21, 2022
  3. Elijah NewrenJul 21, 2022
  4. Junio C HamanoJul 21, 2022
  5. Konstantin RyabitsevJul 21, 2022
  6. Philip OakleyJul 21, 2022
  7. Junio C HamanoJul 21, 2022
  8. Junio C HamanoJul 21, 2022
  9. rsbecker@nexbridge.comJul 21, 2022
  10. Konstantin RyabitsevJul 21, 2022
  11. rsbecker@nexbridge.comJul 21, 2022
  12. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonJul 21, 2022
  13. Konstantin RyabitsevJul 21, 2022
  14. Junio C HamanoJul 21, 2022
  15. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonJul 21, 2022
  16. Junio C HamanoJul 21, 2022
  17. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonJul 21, 2022
  18. Junio C HamanoJul 21, 2022
  19. Konstantin RyabitsevJul 21, 2022
  20. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonJul 21, 2022
  21. Konstantin RyabitsevJul 21, 2022
  22. Junio C HamanoJul 21, 2022
  23. Konstantin RyabitsevJul 21, 2022
  24. Junio C HamanoJul 21, 2022
  25. Bagas SanjayaJul 22, 2022

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