From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 06:49:15 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Have git-revert, git-cherry-pick cleanup ./.msg upon successful completion.
Message-ID: <7vps5efnv8.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070505034615.GE16538@spearce.org>

"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

> What about this change instead?  We make cherry-pick/revert
> use the same temporary file as merge, which is under .git/
> (something Alex mentioned he wanted).  I think the use of ".msg"
> in cherry-pick/revert has always just been a bug, and not a feature,
> so I'm really not against changing things around like this.

While I would not say this is not an improvement, this makes
MERGE_MSG even less about merges and pushes us away from a
sensible "git whatnow".