laravel/laravel — pull request #579 by dlpetrie (2012-04-24 07:05:38+00:00)
Title: Patch 1

...ys defaulting to replacing POST.

Also - unrelated, but is merge the best name for this method since it is actually replacing the Input rather than merging. $_POST is getting completely replaced, $_GET merges by default since it seems the request class auto finds the query string.