On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 01:39:24PM -0800, David Miller wrote: > From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2019 22:36:24 +0100 > > > The cover leter is not preserved and should therefore > ... > > The cover letter is +ALWAYS+ preserved, we put them in the merge > commit. Good to know; is this a netdev special? I've not seen this before. Is there a convenient git command to find the merge commit for a given regular commit? Say I've used git-blame to find a troublesome commit, then how do I find the merge commit for it? Also, I still think this does not excuse weak individual Changelogs.