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737 <h1>
738 git-fmt-merge-msg(1) Manual Page
739 </h1>
740 <h2>NAME</h2>
741 <div class="sectionbody">
742 <p>git-fmt-merge-msg -
743 Produce a merge commit message
744 </p>
745 </div>
746 </div>
747 <div id="content">
748 <div class="sect1">
749 <h2 id="_synopsis">SYNOPSIS</h2>
750 <div class="sectionbody">
751 <div class="verseblock">
752 <pre class="content"><em>git fmt-merge-msg</em> [-m &lt;message&gt;] [--into-name &lt;branch&gt;] [--log[=&lt;n&gt;] | --no-log]
753 <em>git fmt-merge-msg</em> [-m &lt;message&gt;] [--log[=&lt;n&gt;] | --no-log] -F &lt;file&gt;</pre>
754 <div class="attribution">
755 </div></div>
756 </div>
757 </div>
758 <div class="sect1">
759 <h2 id="_description">DESCRIPTION</h2>
760 <div class="sectionbody">
761 <div class="paragraph"><p>Takes the list of merged objects on stdin and produces a suitable
762 commit message to be used for the merge commit, usually to be
763 passed as the <em>&lt;merge-message&gt;</em> argument of <em>git merge</em>.</p></div>
764 <div class="paragraph"><p>This command is intended mostly for internal use by scripts
765 automatically invoking <em>git merge</em>.</p></div>
766 </div>
767 </div>
768 <div class="sect1">
769 <h2 id="_options">OPTIONS</h2>
770 <div class="sectionbody">
771 <div class="dlist"><dl>
772 <dt class="hdlist1">
773 --log[=&lt;n&gt;]
774 </dt>
775 <dd>
777 In addition to branch names, populate the log message with
778 one-line descriptions from the actual commits that are being
779 merged. At most &lt;n&gt; commits from each merge parent will be
780 used (20 if &lt;n&gt; is omitted). This overrides the <code>merge.log</code>
781 configuration variable.
782 </p>
783 </dd>
784 <dt class="hdlist1">
785 --no-log
786 </dt>
787 <dd>
789 Do not list one-line descriptions from the actual commits being
790 merged.
791 </p>
792 </dd>
793 <dt class="hdlist1">
794 --[no-]summary
795 </dt>
796 <dd>
798 Synonyms to --log and --no-log; these are deprecated and will be
799 removed in the future.
800 </p>
801 </dd>
802 <dt class="hdlist1">
803 -m &lt;message&gt;
804 </dt>
805 <dt class="hdlist1">
806 --message &lt;message&gt;
807 </dt>
808 <dd>
810 Use &lt;message&gt; instead of the branch names for the first line
811 of the log message. For use with <code>--log</code>.
812 </p>
813 </dd>
814 <dt class="hdlist1">
815 --into-name &lt;branch&gt;
816 </dt>
817 <dd>
819 Prepare the merge message as if merging to the branch <code>&lt;branch&gt;</code>,
820 instead of the name of the real branch to which the merge is made.
821 </p>
822 </dd>
823 <dt class="hdlist1">
824 -F &lt;file&gt;
825 </dt>
826 <dt class="hdlist1">
827 --file &lt;file&gt;
828 </dt>
829 <dd>
831 Take the list of merged objects from &lt;file&gt; instead of
832 stdin.
833 </p>
834 </dd>
835 </dl></div>
836 </div>
837 </div>
838 <div class="sect1">
839 <h2 id="_configuration">CONFIGURATION</h2>
840 <div class="sectionbody">
841 <div class="dlist"><dl>
842 <dt class="hdlist1">
843 merge.branchdesc
844 </dt>
845 <dd>
847 In addition to branch names, populate the log message with
848 the branch description text associated with them. Defaults
849 to false.
850 </p>
851 </dd>
852 <dt class="hdlist1">
853 merge.log
854 </dt>
855 <dd>
857 In addition to branch names, populate the log message with at
858 most the specified number of one-line descriptions from the
859 actual commits that are being merged. Defaults to false, and
860 true is a synonym for 20.
861 </p>
862 </dd>
863 <dt class="hdlist1">
864 merge.suppressDest
865 </dt>
866 <dd>
868 By adding a glob that matches the names of integration
869 branches to this multi-valued configuration variable, the
870 default merge message computed for merges into these
871 integration branches will omit "into &lt;branch name&gt;" from
872 its title.
873 </p>
874 <div class="paragraph"><p>An element with an empty value can be used to clear the list
875 of globs accumulated from previous configuration entries.
876 When there is no <code>merge.suppressDest</code> variable defined, the
877 default value of <code>master</code> is used for backward compatibility.</p></div>
878 </dd>
879 <dt class="hdlist1">
880 merge.summary
881 </dt>
882 <dd>
884 Synonym to <code>merge.log</code>; this is deprecated and will be removed in
885 the future.
886 </p>
887 </dd>
888 </dl></div>
889 </div>
890 </div>
891 <div class="sect1">
892 <h2 id="_examples">EXAMPLES</h2>
893 <div class="sectionbody">
894 <div class="listingblock">
895 <div class="content">
896 <pre><code>$ git fetch origin master
897 $ git fmt-merge-msg --log &lt;$GIT_DIR/FETCH_HEAD</code></pre>
898 </div></div>
899 <div class="paragraph"><p>Print a log message describing a merge of the "master" branch from
900 the "origin" remote.</p></div>
901 </div>
902 </div>
903 <div class="sect1">
904 <h2 id="_see_also">SEE ALSO</h2>
905 <div class="sectionbody">
906 <div class="paragraph"><p><a href="git-merge.html">git-merge(1)</a></p></div>
907 </div>
908 </div>
909 <div class="sect1">
910 <h2 id="_git">GIT</h2>
911 <div class="sectionbody">
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