From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 19:25:59 GMT
Subject: Re: git-browse-help?
Message-ID: <7vhcijn4jc.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20071215111154.GB3447@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> BTW, Junio, I remember discussion a long time ago about doing:
>
>   cover letter
>   -- >8 --
>   commit
>   ---
>   diff
>
> versus
>
>   commit
>   ---
>   cover letter
>   diff
>
> and I recall that you did not have a strong preference. I have started
> using the former, as I find it a bit more convenient to write (and I
> think it is more readable when you are following up a discussion rather
> than writing a real cover letter or commenting on the patch).

Yeah, and it is not too inconvenient to trim it off if you use "am -i"
or "commit --amend".  An added bonus is unlike the "top-post" style, the
cover material is available when editing the final log message, so I
actually slightly prefer "cover -- >8 -- log --- patch" myself.