Re: [RFC 3/3] log: add an option to generate cover letter from a branch tip

Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin [off-list ref] writes:

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So there probably needs a convention meant to be followed by human
users when writing cover letters, so a mechanical process can tell
which part of the text is to be made into the merge commit without
understanding human languages.

In the long term, I agree this would be nice.  As a first step,
could we force the --edit option when using --cover-at-tip ?  The
basic merge message would come from the cover letter but
can/should be edited to clear the extra stuff out.

Ah, "git merge" by default opens the editor these days, so there is
no need to do a special "force"-ing only when we are taking the
initial log message material from the empty commit at the tip.  So
that plan would work rather well, I would imagine.

Good thinking.  Thanks.