# [PATCH] git-merge: record merge strategy in the log message on auto resolved merges

1 messages from 2007-06-06 to 2007-06-06. Participants: Gerrit Pape.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/8466

## Gerrit Pape, 2007-06-06 08:24

Subject: [PATCH] git-merge: record merge strategy in the log message on auto resolved merges
Message-ID: <20070606082428.10588.qmail@3eecbb0978967b.315fe32.mid.smarden.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20070606082428.10588.qmail%403eecbb0978967b.315fe32.mid.smarden.org

```
If a strategy module auto resolved the merge cleanly, record the used
strategy in the log message, e.g.:

  Merge branch 'maint' using strategy ours

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
---

I personally find this useful especially for the 'ours' strategy.

 git-merge.sh |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-merge.sh b/git-merge.sh
index 981d69d..b661f74 100755
--- a/git-merge.sh
+++ b/git-merge.sh
@@ -440,7 +440,8 @@ done
 if test '' != "$result_tree"
 then
     parents=$(git-show-branch --independent "$head" "$@" | sed -e 's/^/-p /')
-    result_commit=$(printf '%s\n' "$merge_msg" | git-commit-tree $result_tree $parents) || exit
+    result_commit=$(printf '%s\n' "$merge_msg using strategy $wt_strategy" |
+	git-commit-tree $result_tree $parents) || exit
     finish "$result_commit" "Merge made by $wt_strategy."
     dropsave
     exit 0
-- 
1.5.2

```