Subject: [PATCH] doc: add missing --message long option to merge docs

From: "Brandon Dong via GitGitGadget" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 29 May 2026 01:55:26 +0000

From: Brandon <[email-masked]>

Include mention of --message flag in merge docs to match what is
accepted (builtin/merge.c) and to make it consistent with the git
commit docs.

Signed-off-by: Brandon Dong <[email-masked]>
---
    doc: add missing --message long option to merge docs

Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-git-2315%2Fbrandondong%2Fmerge_message_docs-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-git-2315/brandondong/merge_message_docs-v1
Pull-Request: https://github.com/git/git/pull/2315

 Documentation/git-merge.adoc | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge.adoc b/Documentation/git-merge.adoc
index a055384ad6..6581f4c69c 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-merge.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/git-merge.adoc
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ OPTIONS
 include::merge-options.adoc[]
 
 `-m <msg>`::
+`--message=<msg>`::
 	Set the commit message to be used for the merge commit (in
 	case one is created).
 +

base-commit: c69baaf57ba26cf117c2b6793802877f19738b0d
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