From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Cory Sharp <cory.sharp@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Q] merge squash unexpected conflicts
Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 23:42:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v4ovoxk0n.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bb9d69200905132334m7a4e3a4akde3529abeab5a09@mail.gmail.com> (Cory Sharp's message of "Wed\, 13 May 2009 23\:34\:24 -0700")
Cory Sharp <cory.sharp@gmail.com> writes:
>> If you want support for repeated merges by merge tracking, you do not want
>> todiscard the merge history by using --squash.
>
> Why doesn't --squash do merge tracking? The help didn't indicate that
> it doesn't, and I don't understand why ...
Because "merge" is (no surprise) what tracks what (two or more) things
were merged. And with --squash you are choosing not to make a merge. I
am not sure if there is any more thing to be explained...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-14 6:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <bb9d69200905131706m61b0dda1xc347ca2e719ec142@mail.gmail.com>
2009-05-14 2:42 ` [Q] merge squash unexpected conflicts Cory Sharp
2009-05-14 3:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-05-14 3:57 ` Cory Sharp
2009-05-14 4:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-05-14 6:34 ` Cory Sharp
2009-05-14 6:42 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2009-05-14 6:54 ` Cory Sharp
2009-05-14 7:01 ` Michael Radziej
2009-05-14 18:25 ` Cory Sharp
2009-05-14 12:17 ` Michael J Gruber
2009-05-14 14:47 ` Cory Sharp
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