On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 06:38:20PM +0900, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Denton Liu <liu.den...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Changes since V3:
> > * Add patch to cleanup 'merge --squash c3 with c7' test in t7600
> > * Use test_i18ncmp instead of test_cmp to pass GETTEXT_POISON tests
>
> Queued. Thanks, both.
I just realised that there is a slight problem with the proposed change.
When we do a merge and there are no merge conflicts, at the end of the
merge, we get dropped into an editor with this text:
Merge branch 'master' into new
# Please enter a commit message to explain why this merge is necessary,
# especially if it merges an updated upstream into a topic branch.
#
# Lines starting with '#' will be ignored, and an empty message aborts
# the commit.
Note that in git-merge, the cleanup only removes commented lines and
this cannot be configured to be scissors or whatever else. I think that
the fact that it's not configurable isn't a problem; most hardcore
commit message editing happens in git-commit anyway.
However, since we taught git-merge the --cleanup option, this might be
misleading for the end-user since they would expect the MERGE_MSG to be
cleaned up as specified.
I see two resolutions for this. We can either rename --cleanup more
precisely so users won't be confused (perhaps something like
--merge-conflict-scissors but a lot more snappy) or we can actually make
git-merge respect the cleanup option and post-process the message
according to the specified cleanup rule.
I would personally think the first option is better than the second but
I'd like to hear your thoughts.
Thanks!
