From 2102440c17f990fcb5c9269459c39c6312e80d1c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:00:34 -0500
Subject: fmt-merge-msg -m to override merge title

Since v1.7.1.1~23^2 (merge: --log appends shortlog to message if
specified, 2010-05-11), the fmt-merge-msg backend supports custom text
to override the merge title "Merge <foo> into <bar>".

Expose this functionality for scripted callers.  Example:

 git fmt-merge-msg --log -m \
	"$(printf '%s\n' \
	    "Merge branch 'api-cleanup' into feature" \
	    '' \
	    'This is to use a few functions refactored for this purpose.'
	)" <.git/FETCH_HEAD

Cc: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 Documentation/git-fmt-merge-msg.txt | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'Documentation/git-fmt-merge-msg.txt')

diff --git a/Documentation/git-fmt-merge-msg.txt b/Documentation/git-fmt-merge-msg.txt
index a585dbe89..302f56b88 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-fmt-merge-msg.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fmt-merge-msg.txt
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ git-fmt-merge-msg - Produce a merge commit message
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-'git fmt-merge-msg' [--log | --no-log] <$GIT_DIR/FETCH_HEAD
-'git fmt-merge-msg' [--log | --no-log] -F <file>
+'git fmt-merge-msg' [-m <message>] [--log | --no-log] <$GIT_DIR/FETCH_HEAD
+'git fmt-merge-msg' [-m <message>] [--log | --no-log] -F <file>
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -38,6 +38,11 @@ OPTIONS
 	Synonyms to --log and --no-log; these are deprecated and will be
 	removed in the future.
 
+-m <message>::
+--message <message>::
+	Use <message> instead of the branch names for the first line
+	of the log message.  For use with `--log`.
+
 -F <file>::
 --file <file>::
 	Take the list of merged objects from <file> instead of
-- 
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