Re: [BUG?] git-merge appends extra string to user's message?

On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 07:20:30PM +0900, Nanako Shiraishi [off-list ref] wrote:

% git merge -m "Merge early part of side branch" `git rev-parse side~2`
% git show -s 
commit 37217141e7519629353738d5e4e677a15096206f
Merge: e68e646 a1d2374
Author: ???????????? ????????? [off-list ref]
Date:   Wed Dec 2 14:33:20 2009 +0900

    Merge early part of side branch

    Merge commit 'a1d2374f8f52f4e8a53171601a920b538a6cec23'

At least it's intentional. When I wrote builtin-merge I remember I
checked that the script version had this behaviour and that's why I
implemented the same way in C.