From: Marlene Cote Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:24:50 GMT Subject: RE: FW: question about merge in 1.7.10 Message-ID: <1F026B57884A5841B330471696849DE911450B9B@MBX021-W4-CA-5.exch021.domain.local> In-Reply-To: <7vbooox6xy.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Sorry. You are correct. You said it would open an editor session. -----Original Message----- From: Junio C Hamano [mailto:gitster@pobox.com] Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 4:23 PM To: Marlene Cote Cc: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek; git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: FW: question about merge in 1.7.10 Marlene Cote writes: > I know that the tree will be dirty. The change to git in 1.7.10 says > that the merge will require a commit message when the command is run. I do not think I ever said that. "merge" will always start an editor when it auto-commits is what I said. Could you point me where you read that "will require a commit message", so that it can be corrected?