From: Marvin Fraeman <marvin.fraeman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:05:43 GMT
Subject: Re: How do I control the automated commit message on a merge?
Message-ID: <bd2cb52a0806031705x7cc153bsc00e1a0198d6e7b5@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0806032350170.13507@racer.site.net>

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, Marvin Fraeman wrote:
>
>> when Git does a merge (no conflicts), it auto-generates a commit message
>> like:
>>
>>         Merge branch 'master' of  /path/to/other/repo
>>
>> How can I change this so my required string gets written at the
>> beginning of the commit message.
>
> s/./?/

Where do I do the substitution in this case? I don't know where this
default commit message is coming from and where to intercept it. Are
you saying this is part of the post-merge hook or is that an
alternative solution?

Thank you