diff --git a/docs/merge.rst b/docs/merge.rst
index 55e411a..f2ee278 100644
--- a/docs/merge.rst
+++ b/docs/merge.rst
@@ -2,4 +2,37 @@
 Merge
 **********************************************************************
 
+.. contents::
+
 .. automethod:: pygit2.Repository.merge_base
+.. automethod:: pygit2.Repository.merge
+
+The merge method
+=================
+
+The method does a merge over the current working copy.
+It gets an Oid object as a parameter and returns a MergeResult object.
+
+As its name says, it only does the merge, does not commit nor update the
+branch reference in the case of a fastforward.
+
+For the moment, the merge does not support options, it will perform the
+merge with the default ones defined in GIT_MERGE_OPTS_INIT libgit2 constant.
+
+Example::
+
+    >>> branch_head_hex = '5ebeeebb320790caf276b9fc8b24546d63316533'
+    >>> branch_oid = self.repo.get(branch_head_hex).oid
+    >>> merge_result = self.repo.merge(branch_oid)
+
+The MergeResult object
+======================
+
+Represents the result of a merge and contains this fields:
+
+- is_uptodate: bool, if there wasn't any merge because the repo was already
+ up to date
+- is_fastforward: bool, whether the merge was fastforward or not
+- fastforward_oid: Oid, in the case it was a fastforward, this is the
+ forwarded Oid.
+- index: represents the repository index after the merge
diff --git a/src/mergeresult.c b/src/mergeresult.c
index dfad78b..1493d6a 100644
--- a/src/mergeresult.c
+++ b/src/mergeresult.c
@@ -39,26 +39,14 @@ extern PyTypeObject IndexType;
 PyObject *
 git_merge_result_to_python(git_merge_result *merge_result, Repository *repo)
 {
-    git_oid fastforward_oid;
     MergeResult *py_merge_result;
 
     py_merge_result = PyObject_New(MergeResult, &MergeResultType);
+    if (!py_merge_result)
+        return NULL;
 
-    py_merge_result->is_uptodate = git_merge_result_is_uptodate(merge_result) == GIT_CVAR_TRUE;
-
-    if (git_merge_result_is_fastforward(merge_result) == GIT_CVAR_TRUE)
-    {
-        py_merge_result->is_fastforward = GIT_CVAR_TRUE;
-        git_merge_result_fastforward_oid(&fastforward_oid, merge_result);
-        py_merge_result->fastforward_oid = git_oid_to_python((const git_oid *)&fastforward_oid);
-    }
-    else
-    {
-        py_merge_result->is_fastforward = GIT_CVAR_FALSE;
-        py_merge_result->fastforward_oid = NULL;
-    }
-
-    py_merge_result->status = Repository_status(repo);
+    py_merge_result->result = merge_result;
+    py_merge_result->repo = repo;
 
     return (PyObject*) py_merge_result;
 }
@@ -68,7 +56,7 @@ PyDoc_STRVAR(MergeResult_is_uptodate__doc__, "Is up to date");
 PyObject *
 MergeResult_is_uptodate__get__(MergeResult *self)
 {
-    if (self->is_uptodate)
+    if (git_merge_result_is_uptodate(self->result))
         Py_RETURN_TRUE;
     else
         Py_RETURN_FALSE;
@@ -79,7 +67,7 @@ PyDoc_STRVAR(MergeResult_is_fastforward__doc__, "Is fastforward");
 PyObject *
 MergeResult_is_fastforward__get__(MergeResult *self)
 {
-    if (self->is_fastforward)
+    if (git_merge_result_is_fastforward(self->result))
         Py_RETURN_TRUE;
     else
         Py_RETURN_FALSE;
@@ -90,29 +78,43 @@ PyDoc_STRVAR(MergeResult_fastforward_oid__doc__, "Fastforward Oid");
 PyObject *
 MergeResult_fastforward_oid__get__(MergeResult *self)
 {
-    if (self->is_fastforward)
-    {
-        Py_INCREF(self->fastforward_oid);
-        return self->fastforward_oid;
+    if (git_merge_result_is_fastforward(self->result)) {
+        git_oid fastforward_oid;
+        git_merge_result_fastforward_oid(&fastforward_oid, self->result);
+        return git_oid_to_python((const git_oid *)&fastforward_oid);
     }
-    else
-        Py_RETURN_NONE;
+    else Py_RETURN_NONE;
 }
 
-PyDoc_STRVAR(MergeResult_status__doc__, "Merge repository status");
+PyDoc_STRVAR(MergeResult_index__doc__, "Merge repository index");
 
 PyObject *
-MergeResult_status__get__(MergeResult *self)
+MergeResult_index__get__(MergeResult *self)
 {
-        Py_INCREF(self->status);
-        return self->status;
+    git_index *index;
+    Index *py_index;
+    int err;
+
+    err = git_repository_index(&index, self->repo->repo);
+    if (err < 0)
+        return NULL;
+
+    py_index = PyObject_GC_New(Index, &IndexType);
+    if (!py_index) {
+        return NULL;
+    }
+
+    py_index->repo = self->repo;
+    py_index->index = index;
+    Py_INCREF(py_index);
+    return (PyObject*) py_index;
 }
 
 PyGetSetDef MergeResult_getseters[] = {
     GETTER(MergeResult, is_uptodate),
     GETTER(MergeResult, is_fastforward),
     GETTER(MergeResult, fastforward_oid),
-    GETTER(MergeResult, status),
+    GETTER(MergeResult, index),
     {NULL},
 };
 
diff --git a/src/repository.c b/src/repository.c
index 81396f9..f590507 100644
--- a/src/repository.c
+++ b/src/repository.c
@@ -621,7 +621,6 @@ Repository_merge(Repository *self, PyObject *py_oid)
     py_merge_result = git_merge_result_to_python(merge_result, self);
 
     git_merge_head_free(oid_merge_head);
-    git_merge_result_free(merge_result);
 
     return py_merge_result;
 
diff --git a/test/test_repository.py b/test/test_repository.py
index c44c3df..0ba5766 100644
--- a/test/test_repository.py
+++ b/test/test_repository.py
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ class RepositoryTest_III(utils.RepoTestCaseForMerging):
         self.assertTrue(merge_result.is_uptodate)
         self.assertFalse(merge_result.is_fastforward)
         self.assertEquals(None, merge_result.fastforward_oid)
-        self.assertEquals({}, merge_result.status)
+        self.assertEquals({}, self.repo.status())
 
     def test_merge_fastforward(self):
         branch_head_hex = 'e97b4cfd5db0fb4ebabf4f203979ca4e5d1c7c87'
@@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ class RepositoryTest_III(utils.RepoTestCaseForMerging):
         # Asking twice to assure the reference counting is correct
         self.assertEquals(branch_head_hex, merge_result.fastforward_oid.hex)
         self.assertEquals(branch_head_hex, merge_result.fastforward_oid.hex)
-        self.assertEquals({}, merge_result.status)
+        self.assertEquals({}, self.repo.status())
 
     def test_merge_no_fastforward_no_conflicts(self):
         branch_head_hex = '03490f16b15a09913edb3a067a3dc67fbb8d41f1'
@@ -333,10 +333,15 @@ class RepositoryTest_III(utils.RepoTestCaseForMerging):
         merge_result = self.repo.merge(branch_oid)
         self.assertFalse(merge_result.is_uptodate)
         self.assertFalse(merge_result.is_fastforward)
-        self.assertEquals(None, merge_result.fastforward_oid)
         # Asking twice to assure the reference counting is correct
-        self.assertEquals({'bye.txt': 1}, merge_result.status)
-        self.assertEquals({'bye.txt': 1}, merge_result.status)
+        self.assertEquals(None, merge_result.fastforward_oid)
+        self.assertEquals(None, merge_result.fastforward_oid)
+        self.assertEquals({'bye.txt': 1}, self.repo.status())
+        self.assertEquals({'bye.txt': 1}, self.repo.status())
+        # Checking the index works as expected
+        merge_result.index.remove('bye.txt')
+        merge_result.index.write()
+        self.assertEquals({'bye.txt': 128}, self.repo.status())       
 
     def test_merge_no_fastforward_conflicts(self):
         branch_head_hex = '1b2bae55ac95a4be3f8983b86cd579226d0eb247'
@@ -344,10 +349,15 @@ class RepositoryTest_III(utils.RepoTestCaseForMerging):
         merge_result = self.repo.merge(branch_oid)
         self.assertFalse(merge_result.is_uptodate)
         self.assertFalse(merge_result.is_fastforward)
-        self.assertEquals(None, merge_result.fastforward_oid)
         # Asking twice to assure the reference counting is correct
-        self.assertEquals({'.gitignore': 132}, merge_result.status)
-        self.assertEquals({'.gitignore': 132}, merge_result.status)
+        self.assertEquals(None, merge_result.fastforward_oid)
+        self.assertEquals(None, merge_result.fastforward_oid)
+        self.assertEquals({'.gitignore': 132}, self.repo.status())
+        self.assertEquals({'.gitignore': 132}, self.repo.status())
+        # Checking the index works as expected
+        merge_result.index.add('.gitignore')
+        merge_result.index.write()
+        self.assertEquals({'.gitignore': 2}, self.repo.status())       
 
     def test_merge_invalid_hex(self):
         branch_head_hex = '12345678'