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From: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Alan <alan@clueserver.org>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Odd merge behaviour involving reverts
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 06:45:32 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081220064532.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vocz8a6zk.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Quoting Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:

> I hope this clears up confusion and fear.

You are correct that I misunderstood what Alan meant by corrected branch.

I think your explanation will help people if we make it part of the documentation.  Especially because two different cases need two different recovery methods, and people need to learn which is which.

Thank you for your detailed response.
-- 
Nanako Shiraishi
http://ivory.ap.teacup.com/nanako3/

  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-19 21:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-18 23:25 Odd merge behaviour involving reverts Alan
2008-12-18 23:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-12-19  0:11   ` Alan
2008-12-19  0:21     ` Linus Torvalds
2008-12-19  0:35       ` Alan
2008-12-19  0:46         ` Linus Torvalds
2008-12-19  3:44   ` Nanako Shiraishi
2008-12-19  4:01     ` Linus Torvalds
2008-12-19  4:18       ` Jay Soffian
2008-12-19  4:23         ` Linus Torvalds
2008-12-19  5:24       ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-12-19  8:45     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-12-19 21:45       ` Nanako Shiraishi [this message]
2008-12-19 23:05         ` Junio C Hamano
2008-12-19 23:12           ` Nanako Shiraishi
2008-12-19 23:51             ` Junio C Hamano
2008-12-19  1:30 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.

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