Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > This description is slightly inaccurate since the re-roll. I think it is > now: > > "git config" did not provide a way to set or access numbers larger > than a native "int" on the platform; it now provides 64-bit signed > integers on all platforms. > > Not a big deal, but it may make your life easier if this description > ends up in the merge commit, and then you later try to write > ReleaseNotes off of it. Thanks, this helps very much. If you are not interested in how a Git maintainer works, you can stop reading. Otherwise understanding of Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt may be necessary to grok the below. The way I work these days is: - Add a "###" cut mark to Meta/redo-jch.sh so that topics I want to have in 'master' comes before it; - Proofread the description on these topics in Meta/whats-cooking.txt; - Make a copy of RelNotes to a temporary file and have it in my Emacs; - On 'master', run "Meta/redo-jch.sh -c1 -e", with emacsclient set to my EDITOR; - Edit the merge log message if necessary (and if I do so, whats-cooking needs to be also updated), but do not say "C-x #" yet; - Copy that final merge log message to that temporary file (it is all in the same Emacs, so this is very simple and easy) to add a new entry; - Go back to the merge log message and say "C-x #", which will go back two step in this list, repeatedly processing all the topics. And then copy the temporary file over to RelNotes. -- 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