Re: [RFC/PATCH] log: add log.firstparent option

On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 12:40 AM, Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:

Whoops. Usually I "format-patch -s" and then add any notes while
sending. But the wifi at OSCON was so abysmal that instead I wrote the
notes directly into the commit message to send the whole thing later.
And of course format-patch is not smart enough to know that I meant
everything after the "---" as notes. :)

-Peff

Kind of a side track but...

I think it's up to the caller of git-am to use "--scissors" to cut the
log? But maybe we could add an option to git-format patch which
formats and cuts via scissors as it generates the message? Not sure
the best way to interpret this, but I know I've had trouble where I
wrote some notes into an email and lost it because I killed the email
for some other edit. Keeping them inside my local commits before
sending out email would be handy.. hmmmm

Regards,
Jake