On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 4:05 AM, Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 07:25, Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Just to add to the "merge in topic branches" idea - if you find that >> the commits are trivially fast-forwardable, you can still add a short >> note/cover letter with >> >> git merge --no-ff -m "Added in foo's work" <branch/commit> > > Except that is not a "short note" anymore, but a full-fledged merge > commit. You forced it with "--no-ff". I think it's safe to say that a commit *is* just a "short note" about a tree, who made it, the reason (message), and who its parents were. Have fun, Avery -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html