On Thu, 06 Oct 2011 10:49:02 -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > > I often find myself using "--no-ff -m foo" for merging short-lived > branches, because the merge commit usually needs to say something > about having finished a feature rather than referring to a branch that > will be deleted shortly anyway. However, it's a little annoying to > have to always write the commit message on the command-line, > especially in cases where a more expository multi-line message would > be useful. > > Is there currently a way to get git to prompt for the merge message, > rather than using the default or requiring the -m flag? If not, isn't > this a common-enough use case to have that ability added to the merge > function? "git merge --no-ff --no-commit branch_foo && git commit" ? Though it would be handy to have a "stop and let me edit the merge commit message" flag on git merge itself. -- Jacob Helwig http://about.me/jhelwig
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