I noticed that if I do 'git merge origin/branch' that the log message says (using --log): Merge commit 'origin/branch' * commit 'origin/branch': Fixed some bug. If I do the same thing from a local tracking branch of origin/branch, it says: Merge branch 'branch' * branch: Fixed some bug. Is it expected that it say "commit" instead of "branch" when the branch is not a local tracking branch? I sometimes merge from remote branches when I don't need to do anything with that branch locally (e.g. I already did the work on another computer and I'm just merging the result into my test machine before I push to the shared server). -- 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