From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
David Krmpotic <david.krmpotic@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: auto merge bug
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2013 21:56:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51365C0F.8070207@op5.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7va9qhu1jk.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
On 03/05/2013 07:47 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>
>> I'm also not sure how useful those really are in practice. I have not
>> used "union" myself ever. And in the example that started this thread, I
>> find the use of "union" slightly dubious.
>
> Yeah, I do not think anybody sane used "union" outside toy examples.
I do, for lists used in tests or to generate perfect hashes from. It's
really quite handy for things like that but totally useless for any
type of multiline format, or even .ini style files unless you're very,
very careful with how you write them.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-05 20:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-04 16:46 auto merge bug David Krmpotic
2013-03-05 9:03 ` Jeff King
2013-03-05 9:12 ` Jeff King
2013-03-05 15:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-03-05 17:59 ` Jeff King
2013-03-05 18:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-03-05 20:56 ` Andreas Ericsson [this message]
[not found] ` <194F685F-9460-42C6-B5A5-59475F53D038@gmail.com>
2013-03-05 22:13 ` David Krmpotic
2013-03-06 9:15 ` Jeff King
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