Please describe the problem.
There is no way to specify the commit message used by the pull command.
What steps will reproduce the problem?
When pulling from a special remote with importtree=yes to get new/modified files, git-annex generates the commit message. It is desired to specify the commit message to describe the content being pulled.
What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system?
10.20231130-g0e9bc415882a5e3a285e004cf9f80936e5762a07 Linux
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This would need to start with
git-annex import --from=remotegetting a--messageoption. Which I've just implemented.As for adding an option to
git-annex pull, it would need to be an option other than--message, becausegit-annex syncalready uses--messagefor the commit message. And sincegit-annex pullcan pull from more than one remote at a time, it seems that it would need an option that specifies a message plus which remote to use that message for. Or the option would need to only be used when usinggit-annex pullwith a single specified remote.That seems like perhaps unncessary complexity, since if you want to import a tree from a remote and specify a message, you can just use
git-annex importwith--messagenow. And then you can rungit-annex pullto proceed with the rest of what it does.Good enough?