Just pass the -m and --no-ff parameters to the merge command:
$ git merge other-branch -m "Commit Message" --no-ff
The --no-ff parameter is required to prevent merging as a fast-forward without merge commit.
Just pass the -m and --no-ff parameters to the merge command:
$ git merge other-branch -m "Commit Message" --no-ff
The --no-ff parameter is required to prevent merging as a fast-forward without merge commit.
You basically have two option.
Easy solution: don't merge, Rebase
Rebase your branch on top of the main branch, resolve conflict, and then merge. As you'll have a straight history, you'll be able to fast-forward to merge and this won't create any merge commit.
git checkout feature
git rebase main
# Resolve conflict if there is
git checkout main
git merge feature
Second option: Rebase -i
You can edit your history after your merge (before you push to a remote). You can manage this with rebase interactive mode.
git checkout main
git merge feature
#You merge and resolve conflict
git rebase -i <sha of the commit before the merge>
Then you'll be taken into an interactive shell with the list of the commits, e.g.:
pick 73c991e Create progress bar module
pick b8a0b83 merge branch feature
pick 2120f47 Add user form
pick 70c55e4 Quiz prototype system
You just need to add squash or s instead of pick:
pick 73c991e Create progress bar module
pick b8a0b83 merge branch feature
s 2120f47 Add user form
pick 70c55e4 Quiz prototype system
This command would squash together b8a0b83 and 2120f47. The next step will be a commit text editor where you have both commit message combined, and it's now up to you to edit them correctly to only keep your original message.
git - What produces a commit message like: Merge branch 'master' of ... into 'master' - Stack Overflow
git - Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/... in commit message - Stack Overflow
Mysterious commit: Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/my_account/my_repo
Can't enter commit message in Git after merging branch. Any advice?
Hi all. Into the master branch on my local repo, I occasionally pull changes from my remote repo. I just noticed that in my local repo commit log, whenever those pulls occur, sometimes a second commit occurs, with the message:
Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/cagross/els
screenshot. FYI the URL in the error message is indeed the correct URL to my remote repo--I've modified it here for security.
What exactly is causing this commit, and what is the reason? These aren't commits that I have explicitly made. Rather, I certainly didn't explicitly make a commit with that commit message. Does git automatically create a commit like this when a merge (or other related action) occurs?
This doesn't seem to occur for every pull that occurs.
The reason I ask is because I would like my local repo to remain in-sync with my remote repo. But git status indicates that my local repo is ahead of my remote repo by several commits, and most of those are due to the mysterious commits that I've mentioned here.
Thanks in advance.
Whenever I try to merge a branch, I get the following screen prompting me to add a message. When I try to add a message I can only use up and down keys and I can't enter any text. Also, I'm not sure how to submit it so that the screen prompt goes away and back to the normal terminal. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
Should I include messages from previous commits in merge commits. Reason I’m asking is because I’m merge my develop branch into the master as we’re doing a release. There has been almost 200 commits since the last merge. What is the recommended practice here.
How I would do this
git checkout master
git pull origin master
git merge test
git push origin master
If I have a local branch from a remote one, I don't feel comfortable with merging other branches than this one with the remote. Also I would not push my changes, until I'm happy with what I want to push and also I wouldn't push things at all, that are only for me and my local repository. In your description it seems, that test is only for you? So no reason to publish it.
git always tries to respect yours and others changes, and so will --rebase. I don't think I can explain it appropriately, so have a look at the Git book - Rebasing or git-ready: Intro into rebasing for a little description. It's a quite cool feature
This is a very practical question, but all the answers above are not practical.
Like
git checkout master
git pull origin master
git merge test
git push origin master
This approach has two issues:
It's unsafe, because we don't know if there are any conflicts between test branch and master branch.
It would "squeeze" all test commits into one merge commit on master; that is to say on master branch, we can't see the all change logs of test branch.
So, when we suspect there would some conflicts, we can have following git operations:
git checkout test
git pull
git checkout master
git pull
git merge --no-ff --no-commit test
Test merge before commit, avoid a fast-forward commit by --no-ff,
If conflict is encountered, we can run git status to check details about the conflicts and try to solve
git status
Once we solve the conflicts, or if there is no conflict, we commit and push them
git commit -m 'merge test branch'
git push
But this way will lose the changes history logged in test branch, and it would make master branch to be hard for other developers to understand the history of the project.
So the best method is we have to use rebase instead of merge (suppose, when in this time, we have solved the branch conflicts).
Following is one simple sample, for advanced operations, please refer to http://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Branching-Rebasing
git checkout master
git pull
git checkout test
git pull
git rebase -i master
git checkout master
git merge test
Yep, when you have uppers done, all the Test branch's commits will be moved onto the head of Master branch. The major benefit of rebasing is that you get a linear and much cleaner project history.
The only thing you need to avoid is: never use rebase on public branch, like master branch.
Never do operations like the following:
git checkout master
git rebase -i test
Details for https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/merging-vs-rebasing/the-golden-rule-of-rebasing
appendix:
- if you are not sure about rebasing operations, please refer to: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Branching-Rebasing
git checkout custom_branch && git rebase master
This will update custom_branch with changes from master branch.
Don't forget to make sure master is up to date first. git pull
This is also possible with git checkout custom_branch && git merge master
For an explanation on why the first one is (probably) what you should be using: When do you use git rebase instead of git merge?
git switch custom_branch # switch current working environment to custom_branch
git merge master # merge master branch into custom_branch
This will update your current branch with the changes from your local master branch, the state of which will be that of when you last pulled while on that branch.
I think this is what you are looking for: git merge origin master