Merging a Pull Request

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Solution:

Commit merging a pull request

After running git log -n 1, you should have seen output something like this:

commit bc368511c6406028c77e2631f77c4d22a5da16d0
Merge: 79fff84 23d1775
Author: cbuckey 
Date:   Tue Sep 30 18:50:28 2014 -0400

    Merge pull request #1 from cbuckey-uda/different-oil

    Change vegetable oil to canola oil

Notice that the commit message:

Indicates that a pull request was merged
Gives the number of the pull request (#1 here)
Gives the branch the pull request was merged from (cbuckey-uda/different-oil here).
Contains the title of the pull request.

GitHub automatically creates a commit message like this whenever a pull request is merged to make it easy to see pull requests in the commit history. Even when the merge is a fast-forward merge, GitHub still creates this commit.