From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 18:22:57 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] disable merge summaries if they are disabled Message-ID: <7vhcq32yda.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0705230828s7fcdd836gf3bb92000d8ebd79@mail.gmail.com> "Alex Riesen" writes: > Otherwise the merge.summary option has no visible effect. I suspect you are mistaking a different merge summary. The option affects fmt-merge-msg, iow, the shortlog looking summary that appears as the commit message in a merge commit. The command line parameter --no-summary inhibits the diffstat given to the terminal after "git-pull/git-merge" is made.