From: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2021 13:52:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] merge: allow to pretend a merge is made into a different branch
Message-ID: <c09a2e85-1c27-ed19-eb6b-c4daece49133@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqee66ubuw.fsf_-_@gitster.g>

On 12/20/2021 5:53 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Teach the "--into-name=<branch>" option to "git merge" and its
> underlying "git fmt-merge-message", to pretend as if we were merging
> into <branch>, no matter what branch we are actually merging into,
> when they prepare the merge message.  The pretend name honors the
> usual "into <target>" suppression mechanism, which can be seen in
> the tests added here.

I like the change to "--into-name".
 
> -	if (starts_with(current_branch, "refs/heads/"))
> +
> +	if (opts->into_name)
> +		current_branch = opts->into_name;
> +	else if (starts_with(current_branch, "refs/heads/"))
>  		current_branch += 11;

I briefly considered whether this 'else if' should just be an
'if' to allow stripping "revs/heads/" from the --into-name option,
but I think it is better as-is, so we use the literal value that
the user supplied.

This patch LGTM.

Thanks,
-Stolee