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Junio C Hamano f8246281af merge: use editor by default in interactive sessions
Traditionally, a cleanly resolved merge was committed by "git merge" using
the auto-generated merge commit log message without invoking the editor.

After 5 years of use in the field, it turns out that people perform too
many unjustified merges of the upstream history into their topic branches.
These merges are not just useless, but they are often not explained well,
and making the end result unreadable when it gets time for merging their
history back to their upstream.

Earlier we added the "--edit" option to the command, so that people can
edit the log message to explain and justify their merge commits. Let's
take it one step further and spawn the editor by default when we are in an
interactive session (i.e. the standard input and the standard output are
pointing at the same tty device).

There may be existing scripts that leave the standard input and the
standard output of the "git merge" connected to whatever environment the
scripts were started, and such invocation might trigger the above
"interactive session" heuristics.  GIT_MERGE_AUTOEDIT environment variable
can be set to "no" at the beginning of such scripts to use the historical
behaviour while the script runs.

Note that this backward compatibility is meant only for scripts, and we
deliberately do *not* support "merge.edit = yes/no/auto" configuration
option to allow people to keep the historical behaviour.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-23 14:34:55 -08:00
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add.c
annotate.c
apply.c Merge branch 'jm/maint-apply-detects-corrupt-patch-header' 2011-10-19 10:48:29 -07:00
archive.c Merge branch 'il/archive-err-signal' 2011-10-13 19:03:23 -07:00
bisect--helper.c
blame.c
branch.c Merge branch 'mg/branch-list' 2011-10-05 12:36:23 -07:00
bundle.c Teach progress eye-candy to fetch_refs_from_bundle() 2011-09-19 11:07:21 -07:00
cat-file.c
check-attr.c Merge branch 'bc/attr-ignore-case' 2011-10-17 21:37:14 -07:00
check-ref-format.c Change check_refname_format() to reject unnormalized refnames 2011-10-05 13:45:30 -07:00
checkout-index.c
checkout.c Merge branch 'jc/checkout-from-tree-keep-local-changes' 2011-10-17 21:37:09 -07:00
clean.c Documentation: clarify "git clean -e <pattern>" 2011-08-28 23:47:55 -07:00
clone.c Merge branch 'nd/maint-clone-gitdir' 2011-08-28 21:20:28 -07:00
commit-tree.c commit-tree: teach -m/-F options to read logs from elsewhere 2011-11-12 22:25:07 -08:00
commit.c commit: do not lose mergetag header when not amending 2011-12-20 13:22:41 -08:00
config.c Merge branch 'mm/maint-config-explicit-bool-display' 2011-10-17 21:37:12 -07:00
count-objects.c
describe.c
diff-files.c
diff-index.c
diff-tree.c
diff.c want_color: automatically fallback to color.ui 2011-08-19 15:51:38 -07:00
fast-export.c
fetch-pack.c Merge branch 'mh/check-ref-format-3' 2011-10-10 15:56:18 -07:00
fetch.c fetch: do not store peeled tag object names in FETCH_HEAD 2011-11-04 21:40:25 -07:00
fmt-merge-msg.c fmt-merge-msg: Add contents of merged tag in the merge message 2011-11-08 10:36:18 -08:00
for-each-ref.c for-each-ref: add split message parts to %(contents:*). 2011-09-08 13:56:19 -07:00
fsck.c fsck: do not abort upon finding an empty blob 2011-09-11 18:03:38 -07:00
gc.c
grep.c Merge branch 'jc/grep-untracked-exclude' 2011-10-15 20:27:19 -07:00
hash-object.c
help.c
index-pack.c
init-db.c read_gitfile_gently(): rename misnamed function to read_gitfile() 2011-08-22 14:04:56 -07:00
log.c format-patch: ignore ui.color 2011-09-12 11:43:58 -07:00
ls-files.c Merge branch 'cb/common-prefix-unification' 2011-10-10 15:56:17 -07:00
ls-remote.c Merge branch 'jc/ls-remote-short-help' 2011-10-05 12:36:26 -07:00
ls-tree.c
mailinfo.c
mailsplit.c
merge-base.c
merge-file.c
merge-index.c
merge-ours.c
merge-recursive.c
merge-tree.c
merge.c merge: use editor by default in interactive sessions 2012-01-23 14:34:55 -08:00
mktag.c
mktree.c
mv.c builtin/mv.c: plug miniscule memory leak 2011-10-06 13:54:32 -07:00
name-rev.c name-rev: split usage string 2011-10-03 11:55:57 -07:00
notes.c
pack-objects.c Merge branch 'jc/fetch-verify' 2011-10-05 12:36:20 -07:00
pack-redundant.c
pack-refs.c
patch-id.c patch-id.c: use strbuf instead of a fixed buffer 2011-09-22 09:35:07 -07:00
prune-packed.c
prune.c
push.c push: Don't push a repository with unpushed submodules 2011-08-20 23:03:52 -07:00
read-tree.c
receive-pack.c Merge branch 'ph/push-to-delete-nothing' 2011-10-17 21:37:10 -07:00
reflog.c
remote-ext.c
remote-fd.c
remote.c Merge branch 'mz/remote-rename' 2011-10-10 15:56:17 -07:00
replace.c Change check_ref_format() to take a flags argument 2011-10-05 13:45:29 -07:00
rerere.c
reset.c Merge branch 'jk/reset-reflog-message-fix' into maint 2011-09-11 22:33:20 -07:00
rev-list.c rev-list --verify-object 2011-09-01 15:46:13 -07:00
rev-parse.c
revert.c Merge branch 'js/no-cherry-pick-head-after-punted' 2011-10-19 10:49:05 -07:00
rm.c
send-pack.c Revert "Merge branch 'cb/maint-quiet-push' into maint" 2011-09-06 11:10:41 -07:00
shortlog.c
show-branch.c want_color: automatically fallback to color.ui 2011-08-19 15:51:38 -07:00
show-ref.c Change check_ref_format() to take a flags argument 2011-10-05 13:45:29 -07:00
stripspace.c
symbolic-ref.c
tag.c Split GPG interface into its own helper library 2011-11-04 21:40:25 -07:00
tar-tree.c
unpack-file.c
unpack-objects.c
update-index.c
update-ref.c update-ref: whitespace fix 2011-08-25 14:42:11 -07:00
update-server-info.c
upload-archive.c
var.c
verify-pack.c
verify-tag.c Split GPG interface into its own helper library 2011-11-04 21:40:25 -07:00
write-tree.c