From: Johannes Sixt Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 19:23:53 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-gui: pass the branch name to git merge Message-ID: <5baaf25b-6f15-8002-97ea-97c5c6a4b4e4@kdbg.org> In-Reply-To: <1dc28731-9000-c3bf-fbed-0cb17c230d8b@kdbg.org> Am 22.11.2016 um 21:40 schrieb Johannes Sixt: > Am 22.11.2016 um 20:16 schrieb Junio C Hamano: >> Can't this be handled on the "git merge FETCH_HEAD" codepath >> instead? > > Absolutely. Any takers? ;) I attempted to fix git merge FETCH_HEAD, but I do not see a trivial solution. But on second thought, we have an excuse to pick my proposed git-gui change anyway: Without that change and a fix in git-merge only, there is still a regression for all users who use the latest git-gui but some git version between 2.5.0 and the fixed git-merge... -- Hannes