Re: [PATCH] merge: add instructions to the commit message when editing

Thomas Rast [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

  Please enter the commit message for your merge commit.  Explain
  why the merge is necessary, especially if it merges an updated
  upstream into a topic branch.

... because people who need to be told to "justify it" would probably be
helped by a more explicit "explain _why_ it is needed".

Why not.  The "explain..." might be construed as a bit too coercive, but
I cannot come up with a way to defuse it (well, except again tacking on
"you should") ...

Would "Please enter the commit message for your merge commit, to explain
why ..." work?