wishlist: allow for merge --no-commit and then delayed commit during merge

[yarikoptic]

I need to implement following flow:

git merge -s ours --no-commit BRANCH \
&& git read-tree -m -u BRANCH \
&& do_some_changes \
&& git commit

I was doing first 2 steps manually (well -- with direct git commands) and then git commit using GitPython to come to realization that it nohow cared about those .git/MERGE* left by git merge --no-commit . Note that it would also be necesary/preferable to allow to not specify commit message for subsequent commit command since generic one for merging should suffice in my cases.

[Byron]

I think for now, it would be easiest to workaround using the git-commit command itself (e.g. repo.git.commit(...). The pure-python commit implementation GitPython comes with could be altered to respect additional files, even though I won't be able to do it due to this library being in maintenance mode.

[yarikoptic]

ah, I haven't realized actually that GitPython is not under active development -- good job maintaining, but then I guess I would need to figure out how to proceed having such a realization now ;)