Why does git merge a branch into itself?

Question

I awoke this morning and looked at the commit history of one of my dev team\'s private repositories on BitBucket. I saw this:

Anonymous

Answer 1

I have received the same type of message. Merge branch 'feature/customfeature' of https://mylocalrepo.com/project.git into develop and it hasn't broken anything yet lol... so don't panic. It is only merging the remote develop branch into your local develop branch. As long as no conflicts arise, you should be good to go :)