Perform the merge and commit the result. This option can
be used to override --no-commit.
+
-With --no-commit perform the merge but pretend the merge
-failed and do not autocommit, to give the user a chance to
-inspect and further tweak the merge result before committing.
+With --no-commit perform the merge and stop just before creating
+a merge commit, to give the user a chance to inspect and further
+tweak the merge result before committing.
++
+Note that fast-forward updates do not create a merge commit and
+therefore there is no way to stop those merges with --no-commit.
+Thus, if you want to ensure your branch is not changed or updated
+by the merge command, use --no-ff with --no-commit.
--edit::
-e::
updated behaviour, the environment variable `GIT_MERGE_AUTOEDIT` can be
set to `no` at the beginning of them.
+--cleanup=<mode>::
+ This option determines how the merge message will be cleaned up before
+ commiting. See linkgit:git-commit[1] for more details. In addition, if
+ the '<mode>' is given a value of `scissors`, scissors will be appended
+ to `MERGE_MSG` before being passed on to the commit machinery in the
+ case of a merge conflict.
+
--ff::
When the merge resolves as a fast-forward, only update the branch
pointer, without creating a merge commit. This is the default