Re: [GIT] Networking

[David Miller]

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 19:50:41 -0700

> Now, I'm all for making descriptive merge commit messages, including
> improving on the summary line. So by all means write those nice merge
> messages with explanations. I think something like
> 
>     dc3d807d6fd9 Merge "openvswitch: gre tunneling support."
> 
> would have been a *fine* summary line, for example, and quite possibly
> better than the default kind of git merge summary lines (ie "Merge
> branch 'openswitch'"). So I'm not against playing with merge messages
> per se, it's literally this "cannot tell it's a merge any more in the
> summary" that I thing is a problem.

Ok, I'll use that format in the future.  I was actually trying to add
more information, not less. :-) But yeah that header line has to
mention that it's a merge, for sure.
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