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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] Documentation: Add definition of "evil merge" to GIT Glossary
Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 02:34:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200705260234.39095.jnareb@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070526001423.GF32073@fieldses.org>

J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 12:37:39AM +0200, Jakub Narebski wrote:

>> +[[def_evil_merge]]evil merge::
>> +	An evil merge is a <<def_merge,merge>> that introduces changes that
>> +	do not appear in any <<def_parent,parent>>.
>> +
> 
> I'm a little skeptical.  This term doesn't appear to be used anywhere in
> the current documentation, for example--are you sure it's worth
> including at this point?  I don't know--I just don't want to end up with
> an entry for every piece of cute jargon that's been used as shorthand on
> the mailing list a few times.  But if you think it's sufficiently useful
> and well-established, then OK.

Currently only t/annotate-tests.sh uses "evil merge" term, but it is
I think quite commonly used in discussion.

Feel free to skip this patch, if you think it is not worth it, Junio.
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-26  0:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-25 22:37 [PATCH 1/3] Documentation: Clean up links in GIT Glossary Jakub Narebski
2007-05-25 22:37 ` [PATCH 2/3] Documentation: Add definition of "evil merge" to " Jakub Narebski
2007-05-25 22:37   ` [PATCH 3/3] Replace the last 'dircache's by 'index' Jakub Narebski
2007-05-26  0:14   ` [PATCH 2/3] Documentation: Add definition of "evil merge" to GIT Glossary J. Bruce Fields
2007-05-26  0:34     ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2007-05-26  0:52   ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-26  1:05     ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-05-25 23:50 ` [PATCH 1/3] Documentation: Clean up links in " J. Bruce Fields

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