From: Todd A. Jacobs <nospam+listmail@codegnome.org>
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:49:02 GMT
Subject: Prompt for merge message?
Message-ID: <6eb7acc7-f4be-4b90-a2fa-a0c91ed9a5a8@t11g2000yqk.googlegroups.com>

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?