On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 04:49:11PM -0400, Avery Pennarun wrote: > It sounds like --log and -m are currently incompatible, in that -m > overrides --log, and that's not the desired behaviour. Bradley: this > is probably a relatively easy fix to make, in case you're looking to > get into some git hacking. :) Really? I get: $ mkdir repo && cd repo && git init && echo content >file && git add file && git commit -m one && echo content >>file && git commit -a -m two && git checkout -b other HEAD^ && echo content >file2 && git add file2 && git commit -m three && git merge --log -m "custom message" master && git show commit fa21035ea5f5437e8664a5d249e7ab88ee3f0e75 Merge: d12be4a 4dc5cba Author: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Jul 28 20:50:39 2010 -0400 custom message * master: two which seems to be what was asked for. So is the problem just that git-pull does not take "-m"? -Peff -- 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