Merge a branch and create a merge commit

Merges a branch into the current branch, creating a merge commit.

• Use git checkout <target-branch> to switch to the branch into which you want to merge.

• Use git merge --no-ff -m <message> <source-branch> to merge a branch into the current branch, creating a merge commit with the specified <message>.
  

git checkout <target-branch>
git merge --no-ff -m <message> <source-branch>

git checkout master
git merge --no-ff -m "Merge patch-1" patch-1
# Merges the `patch-1` branch into `master` and creates a commit
# with the message "Merge patch-1"