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From: Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] core-tutorial: git-merge uses -m for commit messages
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 12:34:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070205113439.GA27077@moooo.ath.cx> (raw)

Signed-off-by: Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net>
---
 Documentation/core-tutorial.txt |   12 ++++++------
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/core-tutorial.txt b/Documentation/core-tutorial.txt
index 9c28bea..6f30e0a 100644
--- a/Documentation/core-tutorial.txt
+++ b/Documentation/core-tutorial.txt
@@ -894,11 +894,11 @@ script called `git merge`, which wants to know which branches you want
 to resolve and what the merge is all about:
 
 ------------
-$ git merge "Merge work in mybranch" HEAD mybranch
+$ git merge -m "Merge work in mybranch" HEAD mybranch
 ------------
 
-where the first argument is going to be used as the commit message if
-the merge can be resolved automatically.
+The `-m` options specifies the commit message to be used for the merge commit
+(in case it is created).
 
 Now, in this case we've intentionally created a situation where the
 merge will need to be fixed up by hand, though, so git will do as much
@@ -981,7 +981,7 @@ resolve to get the "upstream changes" back to your branch.
 
 ------------
 $ git checkout mybranch
-$ git merge "Merge upstream changes." HEAD master
+$ git merge -m "Merge upstream changes." HEAD master
 ------------
 
 This outputs something like this (the actual commit object names
@@ -1623,8 +1623,8 @@ in both of them.  You could merge in 'diff-fix' first and then
 'commit-fix' next, like this:
 
 ------------
-$ git merge 'Merge fix in diff-fix' master diff-fix
-$ git merge 'Merge fix in commit-fix' master commit-fix
+$ git merge -m 'Merge fix in diff-fix' master diff-fix
+$ git merge -m 'Merge fix in commit-fix' master commit-fix
 ------------
 
 Which would result in:
-- 
1.5.0.rc3.544.g79b8

             reply	other threads:[~2007-02-05 11:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-05 11:34 Matthias Lederhofer [this message]
2007-02-05 18:07 ` [PATCH] core-tutorial: git-merge uses -m for commit messages Junio C Hamano
2007-02-05 18:32   ` Matthias Lederhofer
2007-02-06  2:04     ` Junio C Hamano

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