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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Todd A. Jacobs" <nospam+listmail@codegnome.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Prompt for merge message?
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:07:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vy5wxwlcc.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <403e37d1-bdd3-46fc-9a9a-e8aab3a2d3ba@f6g2000vbm.googlegroups.com> (Todd A. Jacobs's message of "Thu, 6 Oct 2011 18:15:11 -0700 (PDT)")

"Todd A. Jacobs" <nospam+listmail@codegnome.org> writes:

> On Oct 6, 6:02 pm, Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Others commented on the current practices and gave their own useful tips
>> already, but an additional hint is to name your branch more sensibly, so
>> that you do not feel it is useless to record it in the history.
> ...
> Ultimately, I guess what I'm really agitating for is just an editor
> option for merge commits. If you take work-flow out of the equation,
> isn't there still a case for easily-editable merge messages?

I do not see any reason for you to be agitated. All you need to do is to
read beyond what you chose to quote from my message, read that part before
omitting from your quote ;-).

      reply	other threads:[~2011-10-07  3:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-06 17:49 Prompt for merge message? Todd A. Jacobs
2011-10-06 18:25 ` Jacob Helwig
2011-10-06 18:51   ` in-gitvger
2011-10-06 20:15     ` Stephen Bash
2011-10-06 20:19   ` Andreas Krey
2011-10-06 22:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-10-06 22:09   ` Shawn Pearce
2011-10-06 23:17     ` Junio C Hamano
2011-10-07  1:15   ` Todd A. Jacobs
2011-10-07  3:07     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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