Re: merge summaries

Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] writes:

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I have two questions:
1) Why isn't 'true' the default setting? The two probably most prominent git
repositories, git and kernel, both use merge summaries.

Think about _who_ uses it for those two prominent repositories for a while.

[ pause, ponder here ]

In other words, "merge.summary" should be true ONLY FOR TOP-LEVEL 
MAINTAINERS.

Making it true for anybody else is almost always a bug. Yes, I and Junio 
have it enabled, but pretty much nobody else should, because if they pull 
from me or Junio in order to merge, their merge summaries would be exactly 
the wrong way around!

This does not necessarily mean that your lieutenants should not
use merge.summary when they pull from other trees (or inside
their own repository to merge in the topics).  They need to
however disable it with --no-summary when they pull from you
when they choose to merge instead of rebase to adjust to the
updated infrastructure in your tree.