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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
Cc: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, tao@klerks.biz, newren@gmail.com,
	phillip.wood123@gmail.com, Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] rebase: add a --rebase-merges=drop option
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2023 10:42:15 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq5ybug8s8.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a856dd16-9876-509b-6a99-11ea0020633c@iee.email> (Philip Oakley's message of "Tue, 21 Feb 2023 16:08:19 +0000")

Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email> writes:

> Maybe it's something that could be included in the Glossary to
> supplement the not well known how-to discussion in
> keep-canonical-history-correct.txt

Yeah, "linearizing the history" may be much easier to understand
than "flattening".  In any case, a canonical reference would be a
good first step.


  reply	other threads:[~2023-02-21 18:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-20  3:32 [PATCH 1/2] rebase: add a --rebase-merges=drop option Alex Henrie
2023-02-20  3:32 ` [PATCH 2/2] rebase: add a config option for --rebase-merges Alex Henrie
2023-02-20  9:38   ` Phillip Wood
2023-02-20 17:06     ` Alex Henrie
2023-02-20 16:41   ` Elijah Newren
2023-02-20  9:31 ` [PATCH 1/2] rebase: add a --rebase-merges=drop option Phillip Wood
2023-02-20 17:03   ` Alex Henrie
2023-02-20 21:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-02-21 16:08   ` Philip Oakley
2023-02-21 18:42     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2023-05-13 16:51       ` [PATCH 0/1] cover-letter: flatten Philip Oakley
2023-05-13 16:56       ` [PATCH 1/1] doc: Glossary, describe Flattening Philip Oakley
2023-05-15  6:59         ` Junio C Hamano
2023-05-27 16:28           ` Philip Oakley
2023-05-19 21:35         ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2023-05-27 16:46           ` Philip Oakley

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