From: Leif Middelschulte <Leif.Middelschulte@xxxxxxxxx> Inform the user about an automatically fast-forwarded submodule. The silent merge behavior was introduced by commit 68d03e4a6e44 ("Implement automatic fast-forward merge for submodules", 2010-07-07)). Signed-off-by: Leif Middelschulte <Leif.Middelschulte@xxxxxxxxx> --- merge-recursive.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/merge-recursive.c b/merge-recursive.c index a4b91d17f..4a03044d1 100644 --- a/merge-recursive.c +++ b/merge-recursive.c @@ -1093,10 +1093,14 @@ static int merge_submodule(struct merge_options *o, /* Case #1: a is contained in b or vice versa */ if (in_merge_bases(commit_a, commit_b)) { oidcpy(result, b); + output(o, 1, _("Note: Fast-forwarding submodule %s to the following commit"), path); + output_commit_title(o, commit_b); return 1; } if (in_merge_bases(commit_b, commit_a)) { oidcpy(result, a); + output(o, 1, _("Note: Fast-forwarding submodule %s to the following commit:"), path); + output_commit_title(o, commit_a); return 1; } -- 2.15.1 (Apple Git-101)