On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 2:12 AM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

Paul Gortmaker [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

By moving the message after the diffstat, there is a better chance that
people will be aware they've done a pointless merge commit.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <redacted>

I think the goal of the change may be worthy

Still, diffstat from a fetch/pull is sometimes too verbose. It'd be
better if we have something that fit in one screen (dirstat or maybe
just a first few lines from diffstat then ellipsis) then refer users
to "git diff --stat HEAD@{1}" for more detail stat.
-- 
Duy