Currently it's not possible to do quiet merges in case of no changes
because git merge always outputs the 'Already up to date' message.
This small patch adds a quiet option to git merge that in this case will
skip the output of this message.
---
Documentation/git-merge.txt | 2 +-
Documentation/merge-options.txt | 4 ++++
git-merge.sh | 19 +++++++++++++------
3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge.txt b/Documentation/git-merge.txt
index c136b10..0c4cd19 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-merge.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-merge.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-merge - Join two or more development histories together
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'git-merge' [-n] [--summary] [--no-commit] [--squash] [-s <strategy>]...
+'git-merge' [-n] [-q] [--summary] [--no-commit] [--squash] [-s <strategy>]...
[-m <msg>] <remote> <remote>...
'git-merge' <msg> HEAD <remote>...
diff --git a/Documentation/merge-options.txt b/Documentation/merge-options.txt
index 9f1fc82..dbedf40 100644
--- a/Documentation/merge-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/merge-options.txt
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@
-n, \--no-summary::
Do not show diffstat at the end of the merge.
+-q, \--quiet::
+ Supress the 'Already up to date' message if no merge is
+ needed.
+
--no-commit::
Perform the merge but pretend the merge failed and do
not autocommit, to give the user a chance to inspect and
diff --git a/git-merge.sh b/git-merge.sh
index 7dbbb1d..625457e 100755
--- a/git-merge.sh
+++ b/git-merge.sh
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ commit perform a commit if the merge sucesses (default)
ff allow fast forward (default)
s,strategy= merge strategy to use
m,message= message to be used for the merge commit (if any)
+q,quiet suppress some default messages
"
SUBDIRECTORY_OK=Yes
@@ -38,6 +39,7 @@ use_strategies=
allow_fast_forward=t
allow_trivial_merge=t
squash= no_commit=
+quiet=
dropsave() {
rm -f -- "$GIT_DIR/MERGE_HEAD" "$GIT_DIR/MERGE_MSG" \
@@ -59,12 +61,15 @@ restorestate() {
}
finish_up_to_date () {
- case "$squash" in
- t)
- echo "$1 (nothing to squash)" ;;
- '')
- echo "$1" ;;
- esac
+ if test -z "$quiet"
+ then
+ case "$squash" in
+ t)
+ echo "$1 (nothing to squash)" ;;
+ '')
+ echo "$1" ;;
+ esac
+ fi
dropsave
}
@@ -182,6 +187,8 @@ parse_config () {
merge_msg="$1"
have_message=t
;;
+ -q|--quiet)
+ quiet=t ;;
--)
shift
break ;;
--
1.5.4.3
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