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From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
To: Martin von Zweigbergk <martin.von.zweigbergk@gmail.com>
Cc: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>, <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	<gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] rebase -X: do not clobber strategy
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 11:41:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201011111141.33623.trast@student.ethz.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTiks87caBYo78Xh1hwnEfDF9yKwBn5q3wa87hBo3@mail.gmail.com>

Martin von Zweigbergk wrote:
> Btw, why is the default (if no strategy is specifed) for 'git rebase' to
> use 'recursive', while for 'git merge' "a built-in list of strategies is
> used instead (git merge-recursive when merging a single head, git
> merge-octopus otherwise)"?

Because rebase does a tree-level merge, so it never attempts to merge
than one branch, so octopus never enters the picture.

Sorry for the original breakage; while it has Mike Lundy assigned as
author, I resurrected and resubmitted his patch and should have
noticed.

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch

  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-11 10:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-10  7:14 [PATCH v2] rebase -X: do not clobber strategy Martin von Zweigbergk
2010-11-10 18:56 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-11-11  1:11   ` Martin von Zweigbergk
2010-11-11 10:41     ` Thomas Rast [this message]
2010-11-11 12:59       ` Martin von Zweigbergk
2010-11-11 22:01     ` Junio C Hamano
2010-11-12  1:31       ` Martin von Zweigbergk
2010-11-12 20:55         ` Junio C Hamano

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