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From: Darrin Thompson <darrint@progeny.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Merges without bases
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 16:29:38 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1125005378.4110.25.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1125004228.4110.20.camel@localhost.localdomain>

That didn't come out clearly. Restating:

On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 16:10 -0500, Darrin Thompson wrote:
> Could git-read-tree -m 3-args be made smart enough to treat a 0 as arg 1
> as an implicit empty tree?
> 

Could git-read-tree -m treat an argument of "0" as an implicit empty
tree? It mainly seems useful as the first arg in the three arg -m form.

> Once that is done, git octopus will be able to handle the no merge base
> case.
> 

Once that is done, git octopus could _optionally_ handle the "I can't
find a merge base" case by passing 0 as the merge base to git-read-tree.

--
Darrin

  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-25 21:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-25 21:10 Merges without bases Darrin Thompson
2005-08-25 21:29 ` Darrin Thompson [this message]
2005-08-25 22:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-08-25 22:59   ` Darrin Thompson
2005-09-08 18:01     ` Tim Ottinger
2005-08-26  4:09   ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-08-26  8:00     ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-09 12:02       ` Eric W. Biederman
2005-08-26  9:17   ` Martin Langhoff
2005-08-26 16:37     ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-08-27  6:48       ` Martin Langhoff
2005-08-27 20:49         ` Daniel Barkalow

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