From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 18:14:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] merge,tag: describe -m just like commit
Message-ID: <7vei79p3le.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4D5A267B.7070902@drmicha.warpmail.net>

Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:

> Well, any option is effective only in the case when the command succeeds
> - "commit -m msg" specifies only a message when a commit is created at
> all, etc. So, it usually is a trivial remark. It is slightly different
> for merge because merge may succeed by doing a fast-forward without
> creating a merge commit, which is why I wrote "merge commit message".
> So, the parenthetical remark would have to be "if a non-ff merge commit
> is created". I'm afraid "merge created" alone would not convey this.

Ok.  Thanks for clarifying the thinking behind it.