On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 11:51:51AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

quoted text
> I'd favor, in the longer run:
> 
>  * --stat option to mean "show the diffstat between ORIG_HEAD and merge
>    result" (i.e. current --summary);
> 
>  * perhaps a new configuration merge.stat to control the default for the
>    above;
> 
>  * merge.log configuration to mean "add list of one-line log to the merge
>    commit message" (i.e. current merge.summary);
> 
>  * perhaps a --log option to override the config default for each
>    invocation.
> 
>  * deprecate --summary and merge.summary and remove them long after people
>    are used to the above new set.

I'll add a belated "yes I agree" to this. This is what I was trying to
describe earlier in the thread, but for some reason couldn't think of
the obvious name "log" to replace merge.summary. :)

-Peff
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