[PATCH 3/3] Inform about fast-forwarding of submodules during merge

[Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>]

From: Leif Middelschulte <Leif.Middelschulte@gmail.com>

Inform the user about an automatically fast-forwarded submodule. The
silent merge behavior was introduced by commit 68d03e4a6e44 ("Implement
automatic fast-forward merge for submodules", 2010-07-07)).

Signed-off-by: Leif Middelschulte <Leif.Middelschulte@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
---
 merge-recursive.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/merge-recursive.c b/merge-recursive.c
index 0571919ee0a..29a430c418a 100644
--- a/merge-recursive.c
+++ b/merge-recursive.c
@@ -1093,10 +1093,26 @@ static int merge_submodule(struct merge_options *o,
 	/* Case #1: a is contained in b or vice versa */
 	if (in_merge_bases(commit_a, commit_b)) {
 		oidcpy(result, b);
+		if (show(o, 3)) {
+			output(o, 1, _("Fast-forwarding submodule %s to the following commit:"), path);
+			output_commit_title(o, commit_b);
+		} else if (show(o, 2))
+			output(o, 2, _("Fast-forwarding submodule %s to %s"), path, oid_to_hex(b));
+		else
+			; /* no output */
+
 		return 1;
 	}
 	if (in_merge_bases(commit_b, commit_a)) {
 		oidcpy(result, a);
+		if (show(o, 3)) {
+			output(o, 1, _("Fast-forwarding submodule %s to the following commit:"), path);
+			output_commit_title(o, commit_a);
+		} else if (show(o, 2))
+			output(o, 2, _("Fast-forwarding submodule %s to %s"), path, oid_to_hex(a));
+		else
+			; /* no output */
+
 		return 1;
 	}
 
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