merge: give a bit prettier merge message to "merge branch~$n"

This hacks the input to fmt-merge-msg to make the message for
merging early part of a branch a little easier to read.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

diff --git a/git-merge.sh b/git-merge.sh
index c895a04f6be0e09670af71532558abe994369a64..4ebfcf65d99f7743048df901b38969c28cc11edb 100755 (executable)
--- a/git-merge.sh
+++ b/git-merge.sh
@@ -91,6 +91,22 @@ finish () {
        esac
 }
 
        esac
 }
 

+merge_name () {
+       remote="$1"
+       rh=$(git-rev-parse --verify "$remote^0" 2>/dev/null) || return
+       bh=$(git-show-ref -s --verify "refs/heads/$remote" 2>/dev/null)
+       if test "$rh" = "$bh"
+       then
+               echo "$rh               branch '$remote' of ."
+       elif truname=$(expr "$remote" : '\(.*\)~[1-9][0-9]*$') &&
+               git-show-ref -q --verify "refs/heads/$truname" 2>/dev/null
+       then
+               echo "$rh               branch '$truname' (early part) of ."
+       else
+               echo "$rh               commit '$remote'"
+       fi
+}
+

 case "$#" in 0) usage ;; esac
 
 rloga= have_message=
 case "$#" in 0) usage ;; esac
 
 rloga= have_message=


@@ -188,15 +204,7 @@ else
        # in this loop.
        merge_name=$(for remote
                do
        # in this loop.
        merge_name=$(for remote
                do

-                       rh=$(git-rev-parse --verify "$remote"^0 2>/dev/null) ||
-                       continue ;# not something we can merge
-                       bh=$(git show-ref -s --verify "refs/heads/$remote" 2>/dev/null)
-                       if test "$rh" = "$bh"
-                       then
-                               echo "$rh               branch '$remote' of ."
-                       else
-                               echo "$rh               commit '$remote'"
-                       fi
+                       merge_name "$remote"

                done | git-fmt-merge-msg
        )
        merge_msg="${merge_msg:+$merge_msg$LF$LF}$merge_name"
                done | git-fmt-merge-msg
        )
        merge_msg="${merge_msg:+$merge_msg$LF$LF}$merge_name"