Re: [PATCH] merge/pull: --compact-summary

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> "D. Ben Knoble" <ben.knoble@gmail.com> writes:
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> > Does this suggest that we either want a "diff options" option (or
> > config), which would be more general?
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> If I have bk/new-topic branch, here is how I would merge it.
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>     $ git merge --compact-summary bk/new-topic
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> but there is an existing merge.stat that (1) is a mere boolean and
> (2) is true by default to force use of "--stat" option.  We could
> extend it to "bool or the string 'compact-summary'" and when it is
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>  - not set, do the "--stat" as before;
>  - set to true, do the "--stat" as before;
>  - set to 'compact-summary', do the "--compact-summary".
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> With such a configuration variable, "git merge bk/new-topic" would
> be how I would run my merge.