Sorry, I missed that. Further investigation suggests that it works with 'split --rejoin' and has nothing to do with 'push' (actually, push never generates a merged commit at all). We can rephrase for that. Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Danny Lin <danny0838@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > It is definitely clear that --message is valid for add, merge and pull. > > If it is also definitely clear that it is _only_ valid for those > three, then the change is good. I do not know if that is true > offhand, though. >