{"thread":{"id":"13063","subject":"edit merge commit message","startedAt":"2008-04-11T17:12:04Z","lastAt":"2008-04-11T18:08:59Z","messageCount":3,"participants":["martin f krafft","Bill Lear"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"74128","messageId":"20080411171204.GA29738@lapse.madduck.net","threadId":"13063","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"edit merge commit message","fromName":"martin f krafft","fromEmail":"madduck@madduck.net","sentAt":"2008-04-11T17:12:04Z","receivedAt":"2008-04-11T17:12:04Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"madduck@madduck.net","avatar":null},"body":"Hi folks\n\nIs there any way to edit the message of a merge prior to the commit?\nI see there is an -m option but no --edit or the like. It would also\nmake sense to have a config option for this to turn on spawning the\neditor by default, I think...\n\nIf there is none, I am willing to take a stab at it. Unless you tell\nme that this will have no chance to go upstream.\n\n-- \nmartin | http://madduck.net/ | http://two.sentenc.es/\n \na gourmet concerned about calories\nis like a punter eyeing the clock.\n \nspamtraps: madduck.bogus@madduck.net\n"},{"id":"74129","messageId":"18431.42219.921671.875700@lisa.zopyra.com","threadId":"13063","inReplyTo":"20080411171204.GA29738@lapse.madduck.net","subject":"Re: edit merge commit message","fromName":"Bill Lear","fromEmail":"rael@zopyra.com","sentAt":"2008-04-11T17:50:35Z","receivedAt":"2008-04-11T17:50:35Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"rael@zopyra.com","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/c4f2d2790ca3828d3b4e7dfebabf61d2fe94fd82fa49cdac2a5295dd2d46a874?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"On Friday, April 11, 2008 at 19:12:04 (+0200) martin f krafft writes:\n>Hi folks\n>\n>Is there any way to edit the message of a merge prior to the commit?\n>I see there is an -m option but no --edit or the like. It would also\n>make sense to have a config option for this to turn on spawning the\n>editor by default, I think...\n>\n>If there is none, I am willing to take a stab at it. Unless you tell\n>me that this will have no chance to go upstream.\n\n% git commit --ammend\n\n\nBill\n"},{"id":"74131","messageId":"20080411180815.GA31608@lapse.madduck.net","threadId":"13063","inReplyTo":"18431.42219.921671.875700@lisa.zopyra.com","subject":"Re: edit merge commit message","fromName":"martin f krafft","fromEmail":"madduck@madduck.net","sentAt":"2008-04-11T18:08:59Z","receivedAt":"2008-04-11T18:08:59Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"madduck@madduck.net","avatar":null},"body":"also sprach Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com> [2008.04.11.1950 +0200]:\n> >I see there is an -m option but no --edit or the like. It would also\n> >make sense to have a config option for this to turn on spawning the\n> >editor by default, I think...\n> \n> % git commit --ammend\n\nAnd git-merge --no-commit, but those both require multiple command\ninvocations.\n\nI am sorry, I should have mentioned that --no-commit and --no-amend\nare not what I want.\n\nI just want git-merge --edit and then an editor spawns to let me\nedit the commit message right away...\n\n-- \nmartin | http://madduck.net/ | http://two.sentenc.es/\n \n\"nothing can cure the soul but the senses,\n just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.\"\n                                                        -- oscar wilde\n \nspamtraps: madduck.bogus@madduck.net\n"}]}