merge: notice local merging of tags and keep it unwrapped

This also updates the autogenerated merge title message from "merge commit X"
to "merge tag X", and its effect can be seen in the changes to the test suite.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

5 files changed, 13 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/builtin/merge.c b/builtin/merge.c
index dffd5ec124..6a44b6d485 100644
--- a/builtin/merge.c
+++ b/builtin/merge.c
@@ -441,6 +441,11 @@ static void merge_name(const char *remote, struct strbuf *msg)
 				    sha1_to_hex(branch_head), remote);
 			goto cleanup;
 		}
+		if (!prefixcmp(found_ref, "refs/tags/")) {
+			strbuf_addf(msg, "%s\t\ttag '%s' of .\n",
+				    sha1_to_hex(branch_head), remote);
+			goto cleanup;
+		}
 		if (!prefixcmp(found_ref, "refs/remotes/")) {
 			strbuf_addf(msg, "%s\t\tremote-tracking branch '%s' of .\n",
 				    sha1_to_hex(branch_head), remote);
diff --git a/t/t4202-log.sh b/t/t4202-log.sh
index 983e34bec6..222f7559e9 100755
--- a/t/t4202-log.sh
+++ b/t/t4202-log.sh
@@ -346,11 +346,11 @@ test_expect_success 'set up more tangled history' '
 '
 
 cat > expect <<\EOF
-*   Merge commit 'reach'
+*   Merge tag 'reach'
 |\
 | \
 |  \
-*-. \   Merge commit 'octopus-a'; commit 'octopus-b'
+*-. \   Merge tags 'octopus-a' and 'octopus-b'
 |\ \ \
 * | | | seventh
 | | * | octopus-b
diff --git a/t/t7600-merge.sh b/t/t7600-merge.sh
index 3008e4e121..b91d022bc6 100755
--- a/t/t7600-merge.sh
+++ b/t/t7600-merge.sh
@@ -38,8 +38,8 @@ printf '%s\n' '1 X' 2 3 4 '5 X' 6 7 8 '9 X' >result.1-5-9
 >empty
 
 create_merge_msgs () {
-	echo "Merge commit 'c2'" >msg.1-5 &&
-	echo "Merge commit 'c2'; commit 'c3'" >msg.1-5-9 &&
+	echo "Merge tag 'c2'" >msg.1-5 &&
+	echo "Merge tags 'c2' and 'c3'" >msg.1-5-9 &&
 	{
 		echo "Squashed commit of the following:" &&
 		echo &&
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ create_merge_msgs () {
 	} >squash.1-5-9 &&
 	echo >msg.nolog &&
 	{
-		echo "* commit 'c3':" &&
+		echo "* tag 'c3':" &&
 		echo "  commit 3" &&
 		echo
 	} >msg.log
diff --git a/t/t7604-merge-custom-message.sh b/t/t7604-merge-custom-message.sh
index 9114785ef7..89619cf446 100755
--- a/t/t7604-merge-custom-message.sh
+++ b/t/t7604-merge-custom-message.sh
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ create_merge_msgs() {
 
 	cp exp.subject exp.log &&
 	echo >>exp.log "" &&
-	echo >>exp.log "* commit 'c2':" &&
+	echo >>exp.log "* tag 'c2':" &&
 	echo >>exp.log "  c2"
 }
 
diff --git a/t/t7608-merge-messages.sh b/t/t7608-merge-messages.sh
index 9225fa6f02..8e7e0a5865 100755
--- a/t/t7608-merge-messages.sh
+++ b/t/t7608-merge-messages.sh
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ test_expect_success 'merge tag' '
 	git checkout master &&
 	test_commit master-3 &&
 	git merge tag-1 &&
-	check_oneline "Merge commit Qtag-1Q"
+	check_oneline "Merge tag Qtag-1Q"
 '
 
 test_expect_success 'ambiguous tag' '
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ test_expect_success 'ambiguous tag' '
 	git checkout master &&
 	test_commit master-4 &&
 	git merge ambiguous &&
-	check_oneline "Merge commit QambiguousQ"
+	check_oneline "Merge tag QambiguousQ"
 '
 
 test_expect_success 'remote-tracking branch' '