From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Lear Subject: How to change merge message ("weenie commits") Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:56:33 -0600 Message-ID: <17848.54065.631799.755255@lisa.zopyra.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jan 25 16:56:55 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HA6xs-0005Qk-EG for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:56:40 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030243AbXAYP4h (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jan 2007 10:56:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030247AbXAYP4h (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jan 2007 10:56:37 -0500 Received: from mail.zopyra.com ([65.68.225.25]:60552 "EHLO zopyra.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030243AbXAYP4g (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jan 2007 10:56:36 -0500 Received: (from rael@localhost) by zopyra.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id l0PFuaC22933; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:56:36 -0600 X-Mailer: VM 7.18 under Emacs 21.1.1 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: I have developed a habit of using my SCM to provide local backup of my daily (hourly) work. I often will work to a stopping point and commit my work, without any real coherence to the commit --- a sort of checkpoint. These I call "weenie commits" because they are weenie-ish, unimportant in the larger scheme of things. When developing with others, I would like to be able to work in this way, tidily keeping my stuff tucked away in my SCM system, and then when I am ready to share, to convey to my peers what they need to know about my work, and not the 10,000 weenie commit messages that may be associated with my work. So, when I merge my topic branch onto master, for example, I'd like the commit message to be something more thoughtful than the "checkpoint 1", "checkpoint 2", "fix typo", "redo sort algorithm", etc., etc., and be more like a short set of release notes, a summary of what all has been accomplished. Do others run into this and perhaps have a good solution? Bill