From: Tim Janik Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2012 01:30:15 GMT Subject: Overlong lines with git-merge --log Message-ID: <50932227.3090401@gnu.org> Hey all. Using git-merge --log to merge commit messages that spawn multiple lines will produce overlong summary lines. That's because each summary line for a commit includes the entire commit message (all lines concatenated). According to git-fmt-merge-msg(1), --log should 'populate the log message with one-line descriptions' instead of using the entire commit messages. Which would make a lot of sense, it's just not working as advertised. Encountered with git version 1.7.9.5. -- Yours sincerely, Tim Janik --- http://timj.testbit.eu/ - Free software Author