From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 06:34:13 GMT
Subject: Re: Idea: "git format-patch" should get more information out of git
Message-ID: <7v1uw69h96.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vippiaduw.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> writes:
>
>> 4. There is no place to store the "additional information" (the part
>> that comes in patch emails between the "---" and the diffstat) while
>> working on the patch series;...
>
> I thought there was a RFC floating around to do this using notes and also
> teach it to "commit -e" a few months ago? I vaguelly recall that Peff and
> one of the J's were involved, so I am CC'ing them.

Also, when I prepare a commit to be sent with an additional piece of
information, I often write "---" and the additional message after my
S-o-b: line while preparing the commit log message. Unlike format-patch
that strips that off, commit keeps it, which is handy.