On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 2:20 PM, Martin Fick <mfick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Friday, August 05, 2016 08:39:58 AM you wrote: >> * A new topic, when you merge it to the "lit" branch, you >> describe the cover as the merge commit message. >> >> * When you updated an existing topic, you tell a tool >> like "rebase -i -p" to recreate "lit" branch on top of >> the mainline. This would give you an opportunity to >> update the cover. > > This is a neat idea. How would this work if there is no > merge commit (mainline hasn't moved)? Sorry, I do not understand your question. You always merge into your own "lit", which is based on (some) version of the mainline. If a topic builds on top of the mainline, you "merge --no-ff" it into "lit". Because no merges on "lit" will be part of the future mainline anyway, even the project frowns upon a "no-ff" merge, that will not be a problem. -- 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