From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2025 05:12:07 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] builtin/format-patch: print a warning for skipped merge commits?
Message-ID: <xmqqo6nfdyl4.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <20251231034217.2498648-1-asmadeus@codewreck.org>

Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org> writes:

> This RFC patch illustrates how we could easily print a warning, but
> perhaps the warning would only make sense if no other commit has been
> formatted?

Yeah, when nothing is shown but the given range is not empty, it
would not be too annoying to give an advice message.

On the other hand, I do not think it is a good idea to say anything
extra when the user gave a range "trunk..mytopic" that has repeated
back-merges from trunk into mytopic, to format what s/he worked on
the mytopic branch.  They _expect_ these back-merges to be ignored,
and it would be purely an unwanted noise.

Thanks.