Re: Prompt for merge message?

"Todd A. Jacobs" [off-list ref] writes:

On Oct 6, 6:02 pm, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Others commented on the current practices and gave their own useful tips
already, but an additional hint is to name your branch more sensibly, so
that you do not feel it is useless to record it in the history.

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Ultimately, I guess what I'm really agitating for is just an editor
option for merge commits. If you take work-flow out of the equation,
isn't there still a case for easily-editable merge messages?

I do not see any reason for you to be agitated. All you need to do is to
read beyond what you chose to quote from my message, read that part before
omitting from your quote ;-).