[PATCHv2] put FETCH_HEAD data in merge commit message

From: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@dev.mellanox.co.il>
Date: Mar 21, 2007, 17:29 UTC
Message-ID: <20070321172916.GC5233@mellanox.co.il>
In-Reply-To: <20070321120643.GI20583@mellanox.co.il>

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> Quoting Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@dev.mellanox.co.il>:
> Subject: [PATCH] have merge put FETCH_HEAD data in commit message
> 
> Hi!
> I often like to fetch some code from others, review and
> then merge. So:
> 
> git fetch <URL>
> git log -p FETCH_HEAD
> git merge FETCH_HEAD
> 
> which is all good but gets me this message in commit log:
> 
>     Merge commit 'FETCH_HEAD' into master
> 
> which is not very informative.
> I can always fix this up with git commit --amend, but
> I'd like to avoid the extra step.
> 
> Would the following patch be appropriate?

OK, I since discovered git-fmt-merge-msg does all the necessary formatting, so here's a better and smaller patch. Seems to work well for me.

Junio, could you apply this?

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Make git-fetch <URL> && git-merge FETCH_HEAD produce same merge message as git-pull <URL>

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@dev.mellanox.co.il>

---

diff --git a/git-merge.sh b/git-merge.sh
index 8759c5a..1e11593 100755
--- a/git-merge.sh
+++ b/git-merge.sh
@@ -108,6 +108,9 @@ merge_name () {
 		git-show-ref -q --verify "refs/heads/$truname" 2>/dev/null
 	then
 		echo "$rh		branch '$truname' (early part) of ."
+	elif test -r "$GIT_DIR/$remote"
+	then
+		cat "$GIT_DIR/$remote"
 	else
 		echo "$rh		commit '$remote'"
 	fi

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MST