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Commit message not helpful after merge squash with conflicts

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SSSven Strickroth <sven@cs-ware.de>
Date
Mar 5, 2016, 10:38 UTC
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Hi,

after a "git merge --squash" with a conflict the commit message is not helpful as it only includes the conflicted files information, however, I expect to see the content of SQUASH_MSG which contains the summary of the merged commits. SQUASH_MSG seems to be just ignored.

I think git should either read SQUASH_MSG and append COMMIT_MSG or add the conflict information into SQUASH_MSG and create no COMMIT_MSG.

References:
 *
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3605385/merge-conflicts-ruin-my-commit-message-while-squashing-commits
 * https://gitlab.com/tortoisegit/tortoisegit/issues/1902
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 Sven Strickroth
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Message 1 of 13 in “Commit message not helpful after merge squash with conflicts”
  1. Sven StrickrothMar 5, 2016
  2. Also read SQUASH_MSG if a conflict on a merge squash occurredSven Strickroth, Mar 8, 2016
  3. Junio C HamanoMar 8, 2016
  4. Sven StrickrothMar 8, 2016
  5. Junio C HamanoMar 8, 2016
  6. commit: do not lose SQUASH_MSG contentsSven Strickroth, Mar 8, 2016
  7. Junio C HamanoMar 9, 2016
  8. Junio C HamanoMar 9, 2016
  9. commit: do not lose SQUASH_MSG contentsSven Strickroth, Mar 13, 2016
  10. Junio C HamanoMar 14, 2016
  11. Junio C HamanoMar 14, 2016
  12. commit: do not lose SQUASH_MSG contentsSven Strickroth, Mar 21, 2016
  13. Junio C HamanoMar 21, 2016

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