2009/2/5 Robert Haines <rhaines@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Hi all, > > I would like to use git-fmt-merge-msg to produce automatic summaries of what > commits are being merged when I merge one branch into the other - like I see > all the time in git.git, etc. The problem I am having is that I can only > seem to get it to work with remote branches via .git/FETCH_HEAD - basically > I don't know what else I can feed it to do what I want. > > Say I have a local repo with no remotes so no .git/FETCH_HEAD. Can I use > git-fmt-merge-msg to produce such a summary when I'm just merging local > branches? I've tried feeding just about everything I can find in .git/ into > it but with no luck. Is there anything generated during the merge that can > be used as input if I do a merge --no-commit? A list of merged commits or > something? > > I'm sure I've missed something simple here... Sure :-) Manpage of git merge: --log In addition to branch names, populate the log message with one-line descriptions from the actual commits that are being merged. Manpage of git config: merge.log Whether to include summaries of merged commits in newly created merge commit messages. False by default. HTH, Santi -- 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