Re: [PATCH] Have git-revert, git-cherry-pick cleanup ./.msg upon successful completion.

"Shawn O. Pearce" [off-list ref] writes:

Gerrit's patch to try and use COMMIT_MSG feels wrong to me, as
git-commit overwrites that file with what it gets from its "input".

Yes.

I agree my patch steps us further from a "git whatnow", but we're
already in deep with MERGE_MSG.  We might as well keep that existing
convention that it can be used to prep the commit message for the
next git-commit invocation, and record other data somehow for the
"git whatnow" case.

Fair enough.