Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin <nmoreychaisemar...@suse.de> 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.
