Re: In defense of Link (was Re: [b4] initial "b4 dig" to supplant Link: trailers)

[Junio C Hamano <junio@pobox.com>]

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org> writes:

> I do wish more people used merges for series and put the series cover
> letter in the merge message. Now *that* would be a real improvement
> for bigger series.

Perhaps something like

 #1 "git am" learns an option to apply patches [1/47], [2/47],
    [3/47], ..., [47/47] in order, and then [0/47] as an empty
    commit to record the cover letter on top of that series;

 #2 "git merge topic" notices such a topic capped with an empty
    commit that records the cover letter, and merges "topic~1" and
    throws the log message of "topic~0" in the log message for the
    merge commit;

 #3 "git format-patch" learns an option to take a topic branch that
    is shaped what "git am" would have produced in #1 (i.e. you fork
    a topic, build commits [1/47], [2/47], ..., [47/47], and capped
    with an empty commit with the cover letter material, and does
    the obvious inverse of #1.

would make the world slightly a better place?