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From: "Marvin Fraeman" <marvin.fraeman@gmail.com>
To: "Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How do I control the automated commit message on a merge?
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 17:05:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bd2cb52a0806031705x7cc153bsc00e1a0198d6e7b5@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0806032350170.13507@racer.site.net>

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, Marvin Fraeman wrote:
>
>> when Git does a merge (no conflicts), it auto-generates a commit message
>> like:
>>
>>         Merge branch 'master' of  /path/to/other/repo
>>
>> How can I change this so my required string gets written at the
>> beginning of the commit message.
>
> s/./?/

Where do I do the substitution in this case? I don't know where this
default commit message is coming from and where to intercept it. Are
you saying this is part of the post-merge hook or is that an
alternative solution?

Thank you

  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-04  0:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-03 21:55 How do I control the automated commit message on a merge? Marvin Fraeman
2008-06-03 22:51 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-06-04  0:05   ` Marvin Fraeman [this message]
2008-06-04  7:33     ` Stephan Beyer

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