[PATCH 0/4] ack recoding in commit log

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

As a maintainer, I often get patches by mail, then
acked-by,reviewed-by etc responses are sent by separate
mail.

I like making acks commits,
this way they are easy to keep track of
as part of git history.


Since response mail happens to have appropriate
subject matching the patch, it's a natural fit to
then use git rebase mechanics if we want to smash
these acks into the original commit.

I have been using these patches without any problems
for a while now, and find the approach very convenient.

Included:
	rebase: new ack! action to handle ack commits
		this part seems ready for merge to me,
		please review and comment

	git-ack: new tool to record an ack
		this does not have proper documentation
		and tests yet, I definitely intend to
		do this but wanted to see whether people
		like the UI first.
		posting for early review and feedback


Note: yes, I think notes+git replace could be used for this too,
my workflow always includes a rebase with --autosquash
before publishing anyway, so dealing with ack as with any
other commit is nicer.


Michael S. Tsirkin (4):
  rebase -i: add ack action
  git-rebase: document ack
  rebase: test ack
  git-ack: record an ack

 Documentation/git-rebase.txt | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++---
 contrib/git-ack              | 79 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 git-rebase--interactive.sh   | 34 +++++++++++++++----
 t/t3415-rebase-autosquash.sh | 15 +++++++++
 4 files changed, 161 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
 create mode 100755 contrib/git-ack

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MST