From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:32:20 GMT
Subject: Re: auto commit merge using the default merge message
Message-ID: <7vocunwz1n.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <49F025E7.7090404@drmicha.warpmail.net>

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

> I think he wants the auto generated message which may be different for
> each merge. Maybe something like
>
> GIT_EDITOR=/bin/true git commit
>
> will do the trick.

Use "GIT_EDITOR=:" instead.  It also is *true* just like /bin/true, but
git knows a simple magic about this and avoids an extra fork+exec.

A similar trick exists for GIT_PAGER=cat (not "/bin/cat"), by the way.