Re: [RFC 3/3] log: add an option to generate cover letter from a branch tip

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Nov 14, 2017, 14:52 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqh8tw3obc.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <d4fec167-aae2-1990-4e24-faaf286f87f5@suse.de>

Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin <NMoreyChaisemartin@suse.de> writes:

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>> So there probably needs a convention meant to be followed by human
>> users when writing cover letters, so a mechanical process can tell
>> which part of the text is to be made into the merge commit without
>> understanding human languages.
>
> In the long term, I agree this would be nice.  As a first step,
> could we force the --edit option when using --cover-at-tip ?  The
> basic merge message would come from the cover letter but
> can/should be edited to clear the extra stuff out.

Ah, "git merge" by default opens the editor these days, so there is no need to do a special "force"-ing only when we are taking the initial log message material from the empty commit at the tip. So that plan would work rather well, I would imagine.

Good thinking.  Thanks.