From: Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:05:46 GMT
Subject: Re: How to change merge message ("weenie commits")
Message-ID: <8aa486160701250805y1b4fa78bj96fd7a137089824d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <17848.54065.631799.755255@lisa.zopyra.com>

On 1/25/07, Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com> wrote:
> So, when I merge my topic branch onto master, for example, I'd like
> the commit message to be something more thoughtful than the
> "checkpoint 1", "checkpoint 2", "fix typo", "redo sort algorithm",
> etc., etc., and be more like a short set of release notes, a summary
> of what all has been accomplished.

I think the --no-commit flag to git-merge/git-pull (man git-pull) is
what you are looking for, or a git commit --amend.

Santi