From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2018 23:46:10 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] Teach the builtin rebase about the builtin interactive rebase Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20180823024856.GH92374@aiede.svl.corp.google.com> Hi Jonathan, On Wed, 22 Aug 2018, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > [nice description snipped] > > This patch fixes that. > > Please include this information in the commit message. It's super > helpful to find this kind of information about why a patch does what > it does when encountering a patch later "in the wild" (in git log -S > output). I thought I did include the relevant part? As to the full back story: I was repeatedly dressed down by Junio in recent attempts to include more motivation in my commit messages. So I am reluctant to do as you say, because Junio is the BDFL here. Ciao, Dscho