From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:09:00 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] put FETCH_HEAD data in merge commit message Message-ID: <7vmz261nb7.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <20070321172916.GC5233@mellanox.co.il> "Michael S. Tsirkin" writes: >> Quoting Michael S. Tsirkin : >> Subject: [PATCH] have merge put FETCH_HEAD data in commit message >> >> Hi! >> I often like to fetch some code from others, review and >> then merge. So: >> >> git fetch >> git log -p FETCH_HEAD >> git merge FETCH_HEAD >> >> which is all good but gets me this message in commit log: >> >> Merge commit 'FETCH_HEAD' into master >> >> which is not very informative. >> I can always fix this up with git commit --amend, but >> I'd like to avoid the extra step. >> >> Would the following patch be appropriate? > > OK, I since discovered git-fmt-merge-msg does all the necessary formatting, > so here's a better and smaller patch. Seems to work well for me. > > Junio, could you apply this? I am afraid not. You missed all the points I raised in my reply.