Re: auto commit merge using the default merge message

Michael J Gruber [off-list ref] writes:

I think he wants the auto generated message which may be different for
each merge. Maybe something like

GIT_EDITOR=/bin/true git commit

will do the trick.

Use "GIT_EDITOR=:" instead.  It also is *true* just like /bin/true, but
git knows a simple magic about this and avoids an extra fork+exec.

A similar trick exists for GIT_PAGER=cat (not "/bin/cat"), by the way.