Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> sorganov@xxxxxxxxx writes:
>
>> From: Sergey Organov <sorganov@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> "-m <msg>" is one of essential distinctions between obsolete
>> invocation form and the recent one. Add it to the "usage" returned by
>> 'git merge -h' for more clarity.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Sergey Organov <sorganov@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> builtin/merge.c | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/builtin/merge.c b/builtin/merge.c
>> index a8b57c7..0e367ba 100644
>> --- a/builtin/merge.c
>> +++ b/builtin/merge.c
>> @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ struct strategy {
>> };
>>
>> static const char * const builtin_merge_usage[] = {
>> - N_("git merge [<options>] [<commit>...]"),
>> + N_("git merge [<options>] [-m <msg>] [<commit>...]"),
>> N_("git merge [<options>] <msg> HEAD <commit>"),
>> N_("git merge --abort"),
>> NULL
>
> While this is not wrong per-se, as the deprecated form will go away
> soon, I hope you do not mind if I had to drop this one from the
> series to avoid merge conflicts to 'pu' (I do not know how bad the
> conflict would be yet; I am just reviewing in my MUA).
Yeah, sure. I was not aware obsolete form description is to go away
soon.