Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> I unfortunately do not recall why _prepend_, and not _replace_, had to be >> the right behaviour. > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/31896/match=git+merge+make+usable > > Hth, Ok, it helped. So it was "my suspicion that people who would want to pass -m would want it to behave this way". I do not care deeply either way myself, as I never have found use for -m to the merge command, but I think it could have been argued either way. "If you want to include the standard message, you can do so yourself by running the fmt-merge-msg yourself" would have been a valid argument too, even though it would make it a lot more cumbersome if many people wanted the standard message anyway. I do not see any objections to the suspicion back then in the thread, there may have been discussions and user requests that made me suspect that nearby as well, and ever since the feature was defined that way there wasn't any objection until Jörg brought this up. So I'd say we should let the sleeping dog lie for now. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
