Re: Prompt for merge message?

> 
> I often find myself using "--no-ff -m foo" for merging short-lived
> branches, because the merge commit usually needs to say something
> about having finished a feature rather than referring to a branch that
> will be deleted shortly anyway. However, it's a little annoying to
> have to always write the commit message on the command-line,
> especially in cases where a more expository multi-line message would
> be useful.
> 
> Is there currently a way to get git to prompt for the merge message,
> rather than using the default or requiring the -m flag? If not, isn't
> this a common-enough use case to have that ability added to the merge
> function?