From: Duy Nguyen Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 18:07:29 GMT Subject: Re: Find a topic branch containing a commit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 8:02 PM, Stefan Beller wrote: > On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 10:50 AM, Stefan Beller wrote: >>> >>> PS. Sometimes I wish we could optionally save cover letter in the >>> merge commit. Sometimes the "big plan" is hard to see by reading >>> individual commit messages. >>> -- > > I had this wish, too. That makes a lot of sense for merge commits, > although it doesn't work well with our current workflow I would presume, > because the merge commit happens at a different time than when Junio > picks up a patch series. And in the mean time, where would we > store the cover letter information to not get lost? We have config branch.xxx.description for that. If we teach git-am to pick up (a selected portion of) the cover letter and save it in branch.xxx.description (or even a new key like branch.xxx.mergeMsg) then nothing is lost. -- Duy