From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:46:03 GMT
Subject: Re: Groups of commits
Message-ID: <i2k32541b131004280546j5fc4e160oa1618fe14d83a291@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <y2t81b0412b1004280105p46962bdeq163bc4fb92cb0fdb@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 4:05 AM, Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 07:25, Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Just to add to the "merge in topic branches" idea - if you find that
>> the commits are trivially fast-forwardable, you can still add a short
>> note/cover letter with
>>
>>  git merge --no-ff -m "Added in foo's work" <branch/commit>
>
> Except that is not a "short note" anymore, but a full-fledged merge
> commit. You forced it with "--no-ff".

I think it's safe to say that a commit *is* just a "short note" about
a tree, who made it, the reason (message), and who its parents were.

Have fun,

Avery