Re: storing cover letter of a patch series?

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 5, 2016, 21:23 UTC
Message-ID: <CAPc5daV51cwPs-8uc_SYLaod7RB7aDGYbjt-x-JsY1qNL81QRA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <10752620.2J2dEZLIGc@mfick1-lnx>

On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 2:20 PM, Martin Fick <mfick@codeaurora.org> wrote:

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> On Friday, August 05, 2016 08:39:58 AM you wrote:
>>  * A new topic, when you merge it to the "lit" branch, you
>> describe the cover as the merge commit message.
>>
>>  * When you updated an existing topic, you tell a tool
>> like "rebase -i -p" to recreate "lit" branch on top of
>> the mainline.  This would give you an opportunity to
>> update the cover.
>
> This is a neat idea.  How would this work if there is no
> merge commit (mainline hasn't moved)?

Sorry, I do not understand your question. You always merge into your own "lit", which is based on (some) version of the mainline. If a topic builds on top of the mainline, you "merge --no-ff" it into "lit". Because no merges on "lit" will be part of the future mainline anyway, even the project frowns upon a "no-ff" merge, that will not be a problem.