On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 2:45 AM Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Junio, would you be willing to accept adding -m without adding --merge also? > > My gut feeling is that "-m" without "--merge" in the context of > "pull" is extremely unlikely to fly well. > > As "git pull" is a "git fetch" followed by a "git merge" (or "git > rebase"), it takes the union of common command line options from > both phases, and "git merge" takes "-m 'message'" which is an option > fairly familiar to users (since it comes from "git commit"). Even > if we are never going to pass "-m message" from "git pull" down to > underlying "git merge", squatting on short and common "-m" would be > a bad idea. Thanks for the explanation. I forgot that "-m" usually means "message". That does seem like a good reason to not use "-m" for "merge". -Alex
