verify-commits: Mention git v2.38.0 requirement

2 years ago · 14fac808bd
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--- a/contrib/verify-commits/README.md
+++ b/contrib/verify-commits/README.md
@ -27,6 +27,10 @@ Note that the above isn't a good UI/UX yet, and needs significant improvements
 to make it more convenient and reduce the chance of errors; pull-reqs
 improving this process would be much appreciated.

+Unless `--clean-merge 0` is specified, `verify-commits.py` will attempt to verify that
+each merge commit applies cleanly (with some exceptions). This requires using at least
+git v2.38.0.
+
 Configuration files
 -------------------