From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:52:54 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] merge: add instructions to the commit message when editing
Message-ID: <7vhazcamdl.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <878vkoamu3.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch>

Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch> writes:

>>   Please enter the commit message for your merge commit.  Explain
>>   why the merge is necessary, especially if it merges an updated
>>   upstream into a topic branch.
>>
>> ... because people who need to be told to "justify it" would probably be
>> helped by a more explicit "explain _why_ it is needed".
>
> Why not.  The "explain..." might be construed as a bit too coercive, but
> I cannot come up with a way to defuse it (well, except again tacking on
> "you should") ...

Would "Please enter the commit message for your merge commit, to explain
why ..." work?