On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> Now people do "git merge" in scripts etc, so we can't fix it ;-(
>
> Yes you can, by teaching "git merge -e" to open an editor ;-).
>
> In the meantime, "commit --amend" is your friend.
The problem with both of those are human: because it's extra work,
it's not going to get done.
In contrast, if it's extra work to *avoid* editing the merge message,
people probably would see the editor pop up, and start adding a few
small notes.
That's why "default behavior" matters so much. It's not that it's not
*possible* to edit a merge message, it's that nobody ever does!
Linus
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