Re: git and appending merge commits

[Adam Majer <adamm@zombino.com>]

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> In a combined diff, unlike the single column to show "+/-/ " at the
> beginning for one-parent diff, each parent gets one column.  And in a
> condensed combined diff, a hunk whose result is inherited solely from one
> parent (iow, a trivial conflict resolution) is removed from the output, so
> that only a non-trivial conflict resolution that leaves result that is
> different from all parents are shown.

Thank you Junio and Shawn for the very clear explanation! Now it makes
very good sense why the patch looks so "weird" :) For cases where both
branches touch the same file and there is a conflict, this would be very
useful indeed.

Cheers,
Adam