From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 01:42:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Have git-revert, git-cherry-pick cleanup ./.msg upon successful completion.
Message-ID: <7vr6ps5bvq.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070508013532.GA11311@spearce.org>

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

> Gerrit's patch to try and use COMMIT_MSG feels wrong to me, as
> git-commit overwrites that file with what it gets from its "input".

Yes.

> I agree my patch steps us further from a "git whatnow", but we're
> already in deep with MERGE_MSG.  We might as well keep that existing
> convention that it can be used to prep the commit message for the
> next git-commit invocation, and record other data somehow for the
> "git whatnow" case.

Fair enough.