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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-01-31 22:30:42 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-01-31 22:30:42 -0800 |
| commit | af6b37fab1a97943c804f4983452c7fde5b0fbbe (patch) | |
| tree | 8ca886b1a5d0d7032bb5393c14ac82fae2dfcfc3 /Documentation | |
| parent | Merge branch 'ar/i18n-no-gettext' (diff) | |
| parent | merge: use editor by default in interactive sessions (diff) | |
| download | tgif-af6b37fab1a97943c804f4983452c7fde5b0fbbe.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'jc/pull-signed-tag'
* jc/pull-signed-tag:
merge: use editor by default in interactive sessions
Conflicts:
Documentation/merge-options.txt
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-merge.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/merge-options.txt | 17 |
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge.txt b/Documentation/git-merge.txt index e2e6aba17e..3ceefb8a1f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-merge.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-merge.txt @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-merge - Join two or more development histories together SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git merge' [-n] [--stat] [--no-commit] [--squash] +'git merge' [-n] [--stat] [--no-commit] [--squash] [--[no-]edit] [-s <strategy>] [-X <strategy-option>] [--[no-]rerere-autoupdate] [-m <msg>] [<commit>...] 'git merge' <msg> HEAD <commit>... diff --git a/Documentation/merge-options.txt b/Documentation/merge-options.txt index 1a5c12e317..f2f1d0f51c 100644 --- a/Documentation/merge-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/merge-options.txt @@ -8,9 +8,20 @@ failed and do not autocommit, to give the user a chance to inspect and further tweak the merge result before committing. --edit:: --e:: - Invoke editor before committing successful merge to further - edit the default merge message. +--no-edit:: + Invoke an editor before committing successful mechanical merge to + further edit the auto-generated merge message, so that the user + can explain and justify the merge. The `--no-edit` option can be + used to accept the auto-generated message (this is generally + discouraged). The `--edit` option is still useful if you are + giving a draft message with the `-m` option from the command line + and want to edit it in the editor. ++ +Older scripts may depend on the historical behaviour of not allowing the +user to edit the merge log message. They will see an editor opened when +they run `git merge`. To make it easier to adjust such scripts to the +updated behaviour, the environment variable `GIT_MERGE_AUTOEDIT` can be +set to `no` at the beginning of them. --ff:: --no-ff:: |