From: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 19:50:41 -0700
> Now, I'm all for making descriptive merge commit messages, including > improving on the summary line. So by all means write those nice merge > messages with explanations. I think something like > > dc3d807d6fd9 Merge "openvswitch: gre tunneling support." > > would have been a *fine* summary line, for example, and quite possibly > better than the default kind of git merge summary lines (ie "Merge > branch 'openswitch'"). So I'm not against playing with merge messages > per se, it's literally this "cannot tell it's a merge any more in the > summary" that I thing is a problem. Ok, I'll use that format in the future. I was actually trying to add more information, not less. :-) But yeah that header line has to mention that it's a merge, for sure. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
