From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 02:17:53 GMT
Subject: Re: Feature request: git-pull -e/--edit
Message-ID: <7vy7q67tf2.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20061119212611.13038.qmail@science.horizon.com>

linux@horizon.com writes:

> The last end-user use I can think of for git-merge instead
> of git-pull is providing a custom commit message.
>
> Would it be possible to add -m and -e options to git-pull?
>
> The problem I can see is that the latter would have to be added to
> git-merge, and the guts there are a bit intricate; it uses git-commit-tree
> directly rather than git-commit, so I can't just pass through the
> arguments.

How often is this desired, when the merge is clean?  

If the answer is "not so often", you can already use "commit
--amend" after "pull" creates an automated merge commit.