From: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 07:46:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] log: add log.firstparent option
Message-ID: <CA+P7+xo11PwE+L3zCy8Nw=xt+ZWKadd_-ra7C-QvNV80B6dCGw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20150724074028.GE2111@peff.net>

On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 12:40 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> Whoops. Usually I "format-patch -s" and then add any notes while
> sending. But the wifi at OSCON was so abysmal that instead I wrote the
> notes directly into the commit message to send the whole thing later.
> And of course format-patch is not smart enough to know that I meant
> everything after the "---" as notes. :)
>
> -Peff

Kind of a side track but...

I think it's up to the caller of git-am to use "--scissors" to cut the
log? But maybe we could add an option to git-format patch which
formats and cuts via scissors as it generates the message? Not sure
the best way to interpret this, but I know I've had trouble where I
wrote some notes into an email and lost it because I killed the email
for some other edit. Keeping them inside my local commits before
sending out email would be handy.. hmmmm

Regards,
Jake