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How to include full commit logs in git merge message?

Subject: How to include full commit logs in git merge message?

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One message between Dec 2, 2009 and Dec 2, 2009.

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Wenguang Wang· Dec 2, 2009, 07:30 UTC · lore

Hi,

When I merge a branch, say myfix, to master, I would like to let the merge log message contain all commit messages I had for the branch I am merging. However, the "git merge --log" only populates one-line descriptions of the commits.

Is there any simple way to populate the full merge messages into the log message of the merge commit?

Thanks!

-Wenguang

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