Re: Merge commit subjects git.git

[Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> The merge messages that are autogenerated by "git merge" (rather, "git
> fmt-merge-msg") are optimized for Linus's workflow ;-) and hasn't changed
> much during the past 4-5 years.

Ah, thank you for the explanation.

> I almost never use "-s ours"; the only exception is when fixing mistakes,
> and "merging all the fixes that accumulated on 'maint' to 'master'" is
> certainly not an example of "fixing mistakes".
>
> This "Sync with 1.7.1.1" is an example of me using "commit --amend" to
> note the exact reason why this merge of 'maint' to 'master' was made---"to
> make sure that we have all the fix in the last maintenance release in the
> development version".  Because the fixes to 1.7.1.1 were all cooked first
> in "master" and then merged to "maint", the result of this particular
> merge didn't change the tree of "master", but that is not always the case.

Can you explain a bit about how you manage the DEF_VER variable in
GIT-VERSION-GEN?

I think I was confused not to see GIT-VERSION-GEN listed as a conflict
in the merge message, but looking more carefully I see that the files
with embedded versions did indeed conflict. Do you just edit this out
of the merge message?

j.