Denton Liu <liu.denton@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I just realised that there is a slight problem with the proposed change. > When we do a merge and there are no merge conflicts, at the end of the > merge, we get dropped into an editor with this text: > > Merge branch 'master' into new > > # Please enter a commit message to explain why this merge is necessary, > # especially if it merges an updated upstream into a topic branch. > # > # Lines starting with '#' will be ignored, and an empty message aborts > # the commit. > > Note that in git-merge, the cleanup only removes commented lines and > this cannot be configured to be scissors or whatever else. I think that > the fact that it's not configurable isn't a problem; most hardcore > commit message editing happens in git-commit anyway. OK. > However, since we taught git-merge the --cleanup option, this might be > misleading for the end-user since they would expect the MERGE_MSG to be > cleaned up as specified. > > I see two resolutions for this. We can either rename --cleanup more > precisely so users won't be confused (perhaps something like > --merge-conflict-scissors but a lot more snappy) or we can actually make > git-merge respect the cleanup option and post-process the message > according to the specified cleanup rule. The former certainly would be simpler to implement, but feels more like an excuse for not doing the right thing to me, when I put myself in shoes of users who use 'scissors' clean-up option in commit. I dunno.
