From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 14:52:23 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC 3/3] log: add an option to generate cover letter from a branch tip Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin writes: >> 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.