It took me some time to figure out how to get summaries of the merged
branch into merge messages. Finally I recognized that I simply need
to set
git-config merge.summary true
I have two questions:
1) Why isn't 'true' the default setting? The two probably most
prominent git repositories, git and kernel, both use merge summaries.
After some time working with git I started to wonder, how these guys
create the nicely formatted branch summaries. If merge summaries are
apparently best practice, why are they missing in my local merges?
2) Why does git-merge have a switch '--no-summary' to switch
summaries off, but doesn't have a switch '--summary' to switch them
on? After some time of searching for the solution I started to
believe that Linus and Junio might use some shell magic to create
their merge messages, which they pipe to git-merge's -m switch. This
inconsistency made finding the simple solution even harder.
- Steffen
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