Re: [PATCH] merge: indicate remote tracking branches in merge message

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 12:36:17PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > Previously, merging a tag directly via "git merge tag" would
> > get you the message "Merge commit 'tag'". It is a little
> > more descriptive to note that it was actually a tag (i.e.,
> > "Merge tag 'tag'").
> 
> Maybe "Merge version 'v1.6.3'" or "Merge commit tagged as 'v1.6.3'"? 
> I dunno.

Definitely "Merge version" is bad. Doing "git tag feature-x-working" and
merging it would lead to "Merge version 'feature-x-working'", which
doesn't really make sense. I don't think the developer would refer to
such a tag as a "version".

Your "Merge commit tagged as..." version is reasonable to me. I'm
dubious whether the additional information that it was a tag is actually
worth anything. That is, given

  (1) Merge commit '1234abcd'
  (2) Merge commit 'v1.6.3'
  (3) Merge tag 'v1.6.3'

where (1) is what we do now and will do in the future for arbitrary
commits, (2) is what we do now for tags, and (3) is the proposed change.
I am not sure that (3) really tells the reader anything useful over the
other two. And your "Merge commit tagged as" is just the same
information written slightly differently.

So maybe this patch should simply be dropped. I don't feel strongly
either way.

-Peff