merge --no-commit not able to report stats more verbosely?

From: Scott R. Godin <scottg.wp-hackers@mhg2.com>
Date: Oct 22, 2012, 13:39 UTC
Message-ID: <k63iai$kbp$1@ger.gmane.org>

As you can see from the below, I can't seem to get it to give me more verbose results of what's being merged (as in the actual merge below) with --stat or -v .. is it supposed to do that?

(develop)>$ git merge --no-commit --stat -v widget_twitter Automatic merge went well; stopped before committing as requested (develop|MERGING)>$ git merge --abort

(develop)>$ git merge widget_twitter
Merge made by the 'recursive' strategy.
 .../code/community/Dnd/Magentweet/Model/User.php   |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

(develop)>$ git --version git version 1.7.7.6

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