Re: 'next' will be rewound shortly

From: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Date: Jun 27, 2008, 17:19 UTC
Message-ID: <20080627171948.GC6201@leksak.fem-net>
In-Reply-To: <20080627163411.GA2058@genesis.frugalware.org>

Hi,

I just looked how you solved that and wanted to start a discussion but you've swooped in first, find. ;-)

> I think it its current form that is not a bugfix. The user may want to
> prepend a custom message and may want to replace the original message
> with a custom one, and I would not consider either of them as "buggy".

Well, when I do -m <msg>, I expect that my commit message is exactly <msg>, and not <msg> with appended stuff. Of course, it doesn't matter what I expect, but I think what the documentation says matters. This is (in "master" and in "builtin-merge" of vmiklos.git):

-m <msg>::
	The commit message to be used for the merge commit (in case
	it is created). The `git-fmt-merge-msg` script can be used
	to give a good default for automated `git-merge` invocations.

So it is not mentioned that a standard message is appended, and thus the original behavior is somehow "buggy" :)

Regards,
  Stephan

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