Allow the user to control the verbosity of merge-recursive.

diff --git a/git-applypatch.sh b/git-applypatch.sh
index a112e1a50405c733e9e94c610caf36a7b07297dd..8df2aee4c2d031ac10c66af0a079bd022c281c0d 100755 (executable)
--- a/git-applypatch.sh
+++ b/git-applypatch.sh
@@ -10,8 +10,12 @@
 ##     $3 - "info" file with Author, email and subject
 ##     $4 - optional file containing signoff to add
 ##
+
+USAGE='<msg> <patch> <info> [<signoff>]'
 . git-sh-setup
 
+case "$#" in 3|4) ;; *) usage ;; esac
+
 final=.dotest/final-commit
 ##
 ## If this file exists, we ask before applying
@@ -178,7 +182,7 @@ git-apply --index "$PATCHFILE" || {
        # This is not so wrong.  Depending on which base we picked,
        # orig_tree may be wildly different from ours, but his_tree
        # has the same set of wildly different changes in parts the
-       # patch did not touch, so resolve ends up cancelling them,
+       # patch did not touch, so resolve ends up canceling them,
        # saying that we reverted all those changes.
 
        if git-merge-resolve $orig_tree -- HEAD $his_tree
@@ -200,7 +204,7 @@ echo Wrote tree $tree
 parent=$(git-rev-parse --verify HEAD) &&
 commit=$(git-commit-tree $tree -p $parent <"$final") || exit 1
 echo Committed: $commit
-git-update-ref HEAD $commit $parent || exit
+git-update-ref -m "applypatch: $SUBJECT" HEAD $commit $parent || exit
 
 if test -x "$GIT_DIR"/hooks/post-applypatch
 then