merge --no-commit not able to report stats more verbosely?

["Scott R. Godin" <scottg.wp-hackers@mhg2.com>]

As you can see from the below, I can't seem to get it to give me more
verbose results of what's being merged (as in the actual merge below)
with --stat or -v .. is it supposed to do that?

(develop)>$ git merge --no-commit --stat -v widget_twitter
Automatic merge went well; stopped before committing as requested
(develop|MERGING)>$ git merge --abort

(develop)>$ git merge widget_twitter
Merge made by the 'recursive' strategy.
 .../code/community/Dnd/Magentweet/Model/User.php   |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)


(develop)>$ git --version
git version 1.7.7.6



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