[U-Boot] git merge summary
Wolfgang Denk
wd at denx.de
Mon Mar 29 12:44:53 CEST 2010
In message <m2mxxreamw.fsf at ohwell.denx.de> Detlev Zundel wrote:
>
> > may I ask if there is reason why merge commits don't have a summary?
>
> Yes, you may. Actually this is a good question.
>
> > I find those summaries (enabled with git config [--global] merge.summary
> > true) very hand to see what was changed with the merge commit.
>
> I didn't even know about that feature, so thanks for poking us.
> Checking the documentation, it seems like the name will change soon
> however (man git-fmt-merge-msg):
>
> merge.summary
> Synonym to merge.log; this is deprecated and will be removed
> in the future.
>
> But apart from that, I also like the feature. Wolfgang, what do you
> think?
I have no preference.
If there is an agreement (or at least no protests) we can add
'merge.log'.
Shall we?
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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