Re: Possible feature request for merge and pull

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 28, 2010, 07:34 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTinRvq71GS5WVdWs9zP5QSJ=TjCWBgTfRGn2Qub0@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 01:24, Bradley Wagner <bradley.wagner@hannonhill.com> wrote:

> I would love to be able to use the -m flag and --log together with git
> merge and pull to be able to create a custom commit message but also
> include one-line summaries of each of the commits being merged/pulled.

This sort of thing has vaguely come up before, and it was mentioned that you can just use a small script that calls git-filter-branch or git-rebase -i.

It's easy to rewrite the commits you just pulled, having some feature that e.g. adds a custom message to the beginning of each of them would just impose an artificial limitation and overlap with existing (and more powerful) functionality.