From: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] update-ref: add --rename option
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:04:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aiuhWIUlOVuuHSNJ@pks.im> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqwlw4nccr.fsf@gitster.g>
On Thu, Jun 11, 2026 at 11:47:16AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> writes:
>
> > One thing that I'm missing from the commit message: what's the
> > motivation for this new mode?
>
> Maintenance of merge-fix database, a kludgy way to manage evil
> merges that are needed to deal with inter-topic semantic crashes.
>
> If you are really interested, see the appendix.
Thanks for the explanation!
Patrick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-06-12 6:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-09 21:35 [PATCH] update-ref: add --rename option Junio C Hamano
2026-06-10 21:28 ` [PATCH v2] " Junio C Hamano
2026-06-11 13:05 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-06-11 18:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-06-12 6:04 ` Patrick Steinhardt [this message]
2026-06-12 16:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-06-11 21:37 ` [PATCH v3] " Junio C Hamano
2026-06-12 6:00 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-06-12 15:41 ` Junio C Hamano
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